YouTube Music integration · live

YouTube Music API access, without the YouTube Music integration

A single REST interface for YouTube Music auth, catalogue search, listener libraries and playlist writes — sharing the exact request and response shape as 10 other music services. No YouTube Music developer account, no OAuth client, no token storage on your side: we hold the YouTube Music credentials and use them only to move a listener's own library on their behalf, the way FreeYourMusic has for ten years.

Get a sandbox key See youtube-music endpoints

redirect to authenticate a listener

services on the same schema

YouTube Music dev accounts you manage

auth · youtube

# 1 — send the listener to the hosted YouTube Music authorisation page.
#     Your account slug: you · returnUrl whitelisted in the dashboard.
 
https://app.musicapi.com/you/youtube/auth
  ?returnUrl=https://you.example/connected
 
# 2 — they come back to returnUrl with ?data64=<base64>:
 
{
  "integrationUserUUID": "6a002d4b-f95b-471f-a27d-609a42e10cdb",
  "authModel": { "status": "success", "error": null },
  "integration": { "type": "youtube" }
}
 
# 3 — that UUID unlocks every YouTube Music user endpoint:
 
GET https://api.musicapi.com/api/6a002d4b-f95b-471f-a27d-609a42e10cdb/playlists
Authorization: Basic <clientId:clientSecret>

What you can do

Everything the YouTube Music API exposes, on one schema.

01AVAILABLE

Read the library

Full paged access to liked tracks in YouTube Music.

02AVAILABLE

Read playlists

Owned and followed playlists with track order, artwork and descriptions intact.

03AVAILABLE

Write playlists

Create, append and reorder playlists in a listener's YouTube Music account, idempotently.

04AVAILABLE

Search & match

Resolve any track, album or artist to its YouTube Music ID by normalised text, with a confidence score.

05AVAILABLE

Catalogue metadata

Tracks, albums, artists and artwork from the public YouTube Music catalogue, no listener auth needed.

06AVAILABLE

Cross-service IDs

Resolve one recording to its ID on YouTube Music and the other 10 services at once.

07AVAILABLE

Listener profile

Display name, avatar, country and account tier, in one normalised shape.

08AVAILABLE

Raw passthrough

Need a YouTube Music field we don't normalise in your transfer flow? Request the underlying token for that listener.

page size: 50search by ISRC: noreturns ISRC: noedit playlist details: yesreturns listener country: no

Endpoints

Same routes for youtube-music as for the other 10.

Swap the musicService value and every call below behaves identically. Public catalogue routes need no listener auth; user routes are addressed by the userUUID returned from the auth callback.

YouTube Music specifics

Video-only and user-uploaded items return an explicit unmatched reason rather than being silently omitted.

AUTH/you/youtube/authStart YouTube Music authentication GET/api/{userUUID}/users/profileListener profile GET/api/{userUUID}/liked/tracksLiked tracks, paged GET/api/{userUUID}/playlistsPlaylists and metadata POST/api/{userUUID}/playlistsCreate a playlist POST/public/search · youtubeCatalogue search, no listener auth POST/api/{userUUID}/searchResolve a recording to its YouTube Music ID

Compared to the official API

What you'd otherwise build against YouTube Music directly.

The official YouTube Music API is free. The work around it — approval, quota, auth, pagination quirks, breaking changes — is what teams actually pay for, once per service.

Concern

Direct YouTube Music API

MusicAPI

Getting access

Developer account, app review, quota requests per service

One key, all 11 services, live in minutes

Authentication

Your own OAuth client, redirect URIs, token storage and refresh

One hosted redirect; we hold clients and refresh tokens, used only for the transfers listeners authorise

Response shapes

Every provider models tracks, albums and playlists differently

One normalised schema across all 11

Breaking changes

You track 11 changelogs and ship fixes

We absorb them behind a versioned interface

Rate limits

Per-provider ceilings, backoff and retry logic on you

Standardised 429s with Retry-After, retries and idempotency built in

Adding a service

A new integration project each time, after YouTube Music

Change one string in the request

FAQ

YouTube Music API questions we get weekly.

Do I need my own YouTube Music developer account?

No. There is no official YouTube Music API. YouTube Music playlists and liked songs are YouTube playlists, reachable through the YouTube Data API with a 10,000-unit daily quota. MusicAPI holds the YouTube Music credentials and uses them solely to facilitate music transfers a listener has authorised, the same model FreeYourMusic has run for ten years. You call one API with your own key; we handle the YouTube Music side, including token refresh and revocation.

Is this a wrapper around the official YouTube Music API?

It's a transfer layer, not a general-purpose proxy. Requests hit our infrastructure, which speaks each provider's API on the listener's behalf to move their library and returns one consistent schema — plus matching, pooled quota and retries you'd otherwise write yourself.

Can I still get the raw YouTube Music response?

Yes, for the listeners who authorised a transfer. Passthrough gives you that listener's underlying YouTube Music token when your transfer flow needs a field we don't normalise.

What does it cost?

Billed per request to a music service, in buckets: €0.60 per 1,000 for the first 5M, €0.45 up to 25M, €0.30 above that, with a €500 per month minimum.

How long does a YouTube Music integration take?

A sandbox key is instant and reading a live library takes about an hour. Production integrations typically land in two to four engineering weeks — and adding the next 10 services after that is a string change.

Start with YouTube Music today.

Sandbox keys are free and instant. Authenticate a real YouTube Music account and make your first live call within the hour.