Tidal Playlist Export

Export your Tidal playlists (including private ones) to JSON format with complete metadata.

Tired of feeling held to ransome and continuing a subscription just to preserve a playlist? This should help you make a backup of the tracks you had in your lists so you have a record of them.

Features

• ✅ Complete track metadata (ISRCs, track IDs, durations, BPM, etc.)
• ✅ Handles large playlists (700+ tracks)
• ✅ Clean, minimal JSON output
• ✅ Simple HTML viewer with album artwork
• ✅ Works via browser console (no API keys needed)

Note - this isn't perfect, you might need to try a couple of times. If sometimes it captures many more tracks than expected when you export. If that happens I found clicking the playlist again and trying again usually gets a fresh export.

I did try using the API's to export the playlists but they were buggy and only partially working.

Quick Start

1. Extract Playlists from Tidal

See EXTRACT_FROM_BROWSER.md for detailed instructions.

Quick version:

1. Open https://listen.tidal.com in your browser
2. Open DevTools Console (F12)
3. Paste the contents of tidal-devtool-playlists.js
4. Navigate to a playlist and scroll to load all tracks
5. Run exportPlaylistData() - data is copied to clipboard
6. Save to playlist/playlistname.json
7. Repeat for each playlist

2. Generate HTML Viewer

Once you've extracted all your playlists:

node generate-viewer.js

This will:

• Read all JSON files from playlist/ folder
• Download album artwork from iTunes API
• Generate playlists.html - a beautiful, browsable interface

Then open playlists.html in your browser!

Project Structure

playlist-export/
├── playlist/              # Your exported playlists (JSON)
├── covers/                # Album artwork (auto-generated)
├── tidal-devtool-playlists.js  # Browser console script
├── generate-viewer.js     # Generate HTML viewer
├── playlists.html         # Generated viewer (open in browser)
├── EXTRACT_FROM_BROWSER.md     # Detailed extraction guide
└── README.md

Exported Playlist Format

{
  "id": "playlist-uuid",
  "name": "Playlist Name",
  "description": "...",
  "totalTracks": 653,
  "tracks": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "id": 12345678,
      "title": "Track Title",
      "artist": "Artist Name",
      "album": "Album Name",
      "duration": 257,
      "isrc": "ABCDE1234567",
      "explicit": false
    }
  ]
}

Why Browser Console?

Tidal's API doesn't allow third-party applications to access user playlists (requires deprecated OAuth scopes). The browser console method:

• Captures actual API responses as you browse
• Works with private playlists
• Gets complete metadata (ISRCs, etc.)
• No API keys or authentication setup needed

License

MIT