YouTube Playlist Manager

01Overview

Beyond managing playlists through the YouTube Data API, this tool does something less expected: it extracts PDF and Google Drive links from video descriptions, downloads them into topic-based folders and packs them into a ZIP archive. It was written to collect lecture attachments in bulk.

Long-running work is taken seriously: operations are cancellable, progress is tracked, jobs are resumable, and the network layer supports retry, backoff and throttling. UI updates are marshalled to the main thread through a queue.

02Key Features

• Playlist management — fetch videos from one or more playlists and filter by title
• Bulk add — add selected or ranged videos to a target playlist
• Duplicate skipping — automatically skip videos already in the target playlist
• PDF collection — extract PDF/Drive links from descriptions into topic folders
• ZIP archive — pack downloaded files into a tidy archive
• Operation history — maintenance tools, archiving and export

03Engineering Notes

• A modular architecture separates UI, services and utilities, with configurable timeout, retry, backoff and throttle values.
• The OAuth flow starts from client_secret.json and creates token.pickle after first login; a PyInstaller .exe build is available.