Export Playlist / Backup

https://****/watsonbox/exportify

https://****/bitsofpancake/spotify-backup is yet another Spotify playlists backup tool.

It provides a Python script file to download and run locally. Like http://www.spotmybackup.com/, it creates a .JSON dump of all the playlists; both spotify-backup.py and SpotMyBackup without folder data, unfortunately; and at least spotify-backup.py also without collaborative playlists (don't know for SpotMyBackup).

(I stumbled over spotify-backup.py while googling. I haven't tried it.)

Note that principally downloading and running a script (or other executable program) outside the browser poses a much bigger security risk (depending on your trust in the source) than applications that run within the browser. But since spotify-backup.py is just 160 lines of open source code, it seems very unlikely that it would contain malicious code, b/c everyone can check it and report it to the GitHub administration.

In conclusion, I recommend http://www.spotmybackup.com/ for backing up all playlists in a file, mostly because it's less effort than spotify-backup.py.

watsonbox

I've written a simple tool to make this easier:

It uses the Spotify Web API to export playlists to CSV format and will not store any private data (or any data at all in fact).

osornios

I use Exportify, and it's great.

https://rawgit.com/watsonbox/exportify/master/exportify.html

You can also recover deleted playlists here. 🙂

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Peter__

Hey! Welcome to the community 🙂

When Spotify playlists get deleted from accounts, they never really get deleted they just get removed from being displayed on your account. With that in mind, if you save the links to all of your playlists (Right click on playlist name > Copy Spotify URI) and keep them in a text file, if a playlist ever goes missing you can just copy that URI into the main search box and your playlist will appear 😉

Peter

SherlockTAS

Good to know.

Thanks for the info.

You can also drag them right into an Excel spreadsheet. Makes them easy to sort. No right-clicking or pasting. Easy and fast.

dschultznet

Drag and drop from Spotify app to Excel 2010 does NOT work for me.

Joe

I think Rollo meant dragging the tracks within a playlist to excel.

I'm just wondering if this is necessary with playlists you have made public since you can always find them again on spotify. All you might want to do is to save the playlist links themselves. Drag each playlist to a text file in notepad++ or other decent text editor and save it as myplaylists.html or something.

jwylot wrote:
I think Rollo meant dragging the tracks within a playlist to excel.

Nope. Drag the playlist title into an Excel cell. Excel will show the playlist title, but if you hover your mouse pointer over the cell, you'll see the embadded http link. Its clickable and Spotify will open it, even if Spotify is not running. Spotify version 0.8.3 and 0.9.1.57 with Excel 2007, both working. AFAIK, there is little funcionality difference between Office 2007 and 2010, though I might be able to confirm that.

Be sure to first click on the playlist title so that it's selected, then drag it. If its not fully selected, it won't drag.

Joe

Heh, for some reason it didn't work when I tried quickly but you're right - it does work with Excel 2010 too 🙂

I've found this to be the only way to back up the playlist location while still showing the playlist name. The http link doesn't tell you a thing about the playlist, other than its web address.

I keep all my playlists alphabetized and sorted by genre in Excel, and its simple. Someone ought to try doing the same thing in Open Office, since its freeware.

obhayden

None of these are really solutions for exporting playlists. What people want is to be able to export all their playlists, each list with all songs/data listed. HTTP link is useless for importing into another player, program. Ideal is an XLS export that has playlist names as column headers, and song info in various cells.

Anyone?

http://www.worldstart.com/spotify-%E2%80%93-back-up-those-playlists/

    obhayden wrote:

    HTTP link is useless for importing into another player, program.

Which player supports streaming Spotify? Not sure what you're trying to accomplish.

ach8d

Here's the solution!

jal278

Another option is an app I threw together that allows you to save playlists as csv (which you can open in excel):

http://joellehman.com/playlist/

icurate

Thanks for sharing this jal278. I love it.

Matol788

Hm, this doesn't seem to work on playlist folders? Any chance you can share your code so that I can make an improved personal version?

fassbrause

Hi, I found this webapp.

http://netz.kiwi/spotify/backup

Sometimes slow but you can backup all of your spotify playlists.

hans-jürgen

Both of the last mentioned export tools do not seem to recognise all of my playlists, only a part of it. I also use nested folders, maybe that is the reason.

fassbrause

The first does not show all of my playlists but the second does.

Even though both do not recognize folders.

hans-jürgen

I think it might have to do with collaborative playlists, maybe also with secret vs. public playlists. But this should not matter for an export tool, because I created them all. Perhaps it should even export playlists that I only follow and have not created myself. Anyway, an easy backup of a collaborative playlist would be very useful, as these might get destroyed by other Spotify users.

railsnapraia

Works like a charm!

Maxjee

Hi there,

I'm a bit careful with loggin in to this kind of stuff. I came here to back-up my playlists not to lose them all because i made a mistake by logging into this website :P. Question to community: Is it safe to log-in here and does it work?

Thanks in advance!

danhawkeye

Thanks Rollo, I've been looking for that functionality for a looong time!
I have about 500 songs, some of them rather obscure and I fear I could not remember all the artist names or song titles if I lost the playlist.
Control A on the desktop app, drag it right over to Excel 2013, worked the first time.

We loved Joels Script. And we extended it, because we needed to not just export, but migrate all Playlists and MyMusic from one account to another.

At http://www.spotmybackup.com/ (all Javascript, the servers knows nothing about you) you can backup your playlists and My Music in one file. If you ever want to migrate those playlists to another account, go there again and import the Backup File. It will generate all playlists and My Music, even in the right order.If you interupt the process, just start again. It will be resumed.

Please note: Starred playlists are not supported by the WebAPI. Your starred playlist will be named "importedStarred". But you can drag & drop to the starred playlist in the Fatclient.

Of course the source is available at Github. Hope you enjoy it.

nicolascorizzo

Dear SpotMyBackup

Tks for this up. I am using the app right now and so far... (10 minutes still like this http://i.imgur.com/PW2WspD.png)... How long it takes normally? Thank you again

hans-jürgen

SpotMyBackup schrieb:
At http://www.spotmybackup.com/ (all Javascript, the servers knows nothing about you) you can backup your playlists and My Music in one file.

Seems it cannot login to my Spotify account (Facebook login). I'm on IE11, Windows 7 64bit at the moment. I can see the Spotify popup asking for permission, but after confirming it, that window stays empty.

By the way, if you also want to convert your playlists to another streaming site, Soundiiz is a good online tool for that.

@Matol788 wrote:
Hm, this doesn't seem to work on playlist folders? Any chance you can share your code so that I can make an improved personal version?

SpotMyBackup extended Joel's script so as to provide a single .JSON file containing all playlists (unfortunately still w/o Folder data): http://www.spotmybackup.com/

They put the source code on GitHub: https://****/secuvera/SpotMyBackup/

As did Joel: https://****/jal278/spotify-playlist-export

Joel's tool provides .CSV export per playlist: http://joellehman.com/playlist/

(Btw, both have the link to GitHub in the top left corner of their tool pages.)

At the occasion, a huge shoutout to Joel and SpotMyBackup: THANK YOU, YOU'RE AWESOME!!! 😄

@fassbrause wrote:
Hi, I found this webapp.
http://netz.kiwi/spotify/backup

Sometimes slow but you can backup all of your spotify playlists.

Unfortunately, that server is down. (I was also not able to find an alternative way of access to that app by a quick googling.)

https://****/bitsofpancake/spotify-backup is yet another Spotify playlists backup tool.

(I stumbled over spotify-backup.py while googling. I haven't tried it.)

In conclusion, I recommend http://www.spotmybackup.com/ for backing up all playlists in a file, mostly because it's less effort than spotify-backup.py.

@nicolascorizzo wrote:
Dear @SpotMyBackup

Tks for this up. I am using the app right now and so far... (10 minutes still like this http://i.imgur.com/PW2WspD.png)... How long it takes normally? Thank you again

The time it takes depends on the number of playlists and tracks. As long the counter goes up, everything is fine. In my personal playlists and My Music I keep around 4000 Tracks. It takes about 8 minutes for the backup and more than 20 minutes to re-import.

@hans-jürgen wrote:

Seems it cannot login to my Spotify account (Facebook login). I'm on IE11, Windows 7 64bit at the moment..

You're right. IE has a Bug/Feature (you name it) since IE 8 not allowing cross-domain JavaScript communication between browser tabs/windows. So please use Chrome or Firefox.

SpotMyBackup now shows a corresponding message if being access by IE. Sorry.