How to Export Your YouTube Music Liked Songs

If you have been using YouTube Music for a while, your "Liked Music" playlist is probably packed with hundreds or even thousands of songs. Building that library takes a lot of time and effort.

But having your entire music collection locked inside one app is risky. Streaming platforms are constantly dealing with licensing disputes. You have probably opened your playlist before and noticed a song was grayed out or completely removed because the copyright holder took it down. When that happens, YouTube does not tell you what the song was. It just disappears.

On top of that, you might want to switch to Spotify or Apple Music, or you might be a DJ who needs a tracklist in a spreadsheet to organize your sets. If you search Reddit for ways to export liked music from YT Music, you usually get a mix of confusing answers. Here is a clear breakdown of the three main ways you can actually get your songs out of the app right now.

Method 1: Google Takeout (The Official Way)

Because YouTube Music is owned by Google, you can request a download of your data using Google Takeout. This is a free, official option, but it is definitely not built for casual users.

1. Go to takeout.google.com and sign in.
2. Click "Deselect all" at the top of the page.
3. Scroll down until you find "YouTube and YouTube Music" and check the box.
4. Click next and start the export.

The Catch: Google Takeout is notoriously slow. You might have to wait hours or days for the email with your download link. Worse, when you finally extract the ZIP file, your liked songs are given to you as a raw JSON file or a messy HTML document. If you just wanted a simple Excel file to copy and paste song titles, trying to read a JSON file will drive you crazy.

Method 2: Transfer Apps (Good for moving between apps)

If your only goal is to move your liked songs from YouTube Music directly to Spotify or Apple Music, there are third-party transfer apps like TuneMyMusic or Soundiiz. You connect both of your accounts to their website, and they try to sync the playlists automatically.

The Catch: These services are great for direct syncing, but they heavily limit what you can do for free. Most of them cap your free transfers at 200 to 500 songs. If you have 3,000 liked songs, you are forced to pay a monthly subscription. More importantly, they do not give you a clean spreadsheet file to keep on your local computer. If you ever want to see your data offline, you are out of luck.

Method 3: Export Venue (The best way to get a spreadsheet)

We saw how hard it was to just get an organized, local backup of our own music, so we built a dedicated Liked Music Export tool. It securely grabs your liked songs from the official YouTube API and instantly builds a perfectly formatted file.

Here is how it works:

1. Go to our Export Liked Music page.
2. Click sign in to connect your Google account.
3. Check the box for the formats you want (like Excel or CSV).
4. Hit the export button.

Your browser will immediately download your file. Unlike Google Takeout, you do not have to wait, and you do not have to know how to code to read it.

Why our tool is different

We designed this tool specifically to give you total control over your music data. Here is exactly what you can customize before you hit download:

1. Export in 13 Different Formats
You are not stuck with just a basic text file. Depending on what you plan to do with your music, you can check multiple boxes and download everything in a single ZIP file:

• Spreadsheets (Excel, CSV, SQLite): Perfect for DJs building databases, or if you just want to track your collection in Google Sheets.
• Media Player Formats (M3U, M3U8): These are universal playlist files. You can literally drop an M3U file into VLC Media Player or a local media server like Plex, and it will read it as a playlist.
• Developer Data (JSON, XML, YAML): Great for programmers who want to build custom apps or data visualizations of their listening habits.
• Documents (Word, Markdown, HTML, Text): Simple, readable lists you can print or save.

2. Pick Your Exact Columns
You can choose exactly what data populates your file. We can pull the Video Title, Channel Title (which acts as the Artist name), the Video URL, the original publish date, and even the thumbnail links. Most importantly, we capture the exact "Liked Timestamp" so you know exactly when you discovered a song.

3. Advanced Sorting and Delimiters
You do not have to accept a random list of songs. You can pre-sort your export by the date you liked the track (to see your oldest favorites first), alphabetically by the song title, or by the artist's name. If you are importing your CSV into a specific DJ software that requires a semicolon instead of a comma, you can even set a custom CSV delimiter.

4. Strict Security
We know connecting your Google account can be scary. That is why we use the official Google OAuth system. We never see your password. Google simply gives us a temporary read-only token to look at your playlist and create the file. You can revoke our access at any time with one click from your profile page.