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MYMUSIC → SPOTIFY

YouTube intent becomes car-friendly Spotify audio

Save a music video to the YouTube playlist named MyMusic. Zion discovers the new entry, cleans the video title, and uses IFTTT’s free email trigger to ask Spotify to add the matching audio track.

A Real Song Journey

Hover or click Neo’s phone to see the YouTube-to-car experience

NEO ▶ YouTube · MyMusic Time To Say Goodbye Andrea Bocelli · saved ✓ Zion finds new playlist item ● Spotify · Car Music Time To Say Goodbye Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli Added to playlist ✓ 🔍 hover / click for journey save on phone · listen in car YOUTUBE RSS video ID + title no media downloaded ZION CONNECTOR clean · dedupe · retry SQLite state GMAIL → IFTTT subject = clean title free email trigger SPOTIFY search title add audio track

Connector Architecture

No media download — only metadata moves through the pipeline

YOUTUBE MyMusic playlist public playlist RSS Save music video video ID + title only ZION CONNECTOR youtube_spotify_connector.py Poll RSS feed Clean title decorations Deduplicate by video ID Retry failed entries SQLite state pending · sent · failed GMAIL SMTP Subject = clean title trigger@applet.ifttt.com free Email trigger IFTTT Receive email Search Spotify Add track action SPOTIFY Mobile YouTube Car Music ▶ audio in the car RSS metadata only · no video transfer · no Spotify developer API

FREE HYBRID PATH

Public YouTube RSS, Zion, Gmail SMTP, and IFTTT avoid a custom paid Spotify integration.

EXACTLY ONCE

SQLite tracks every video ID so successful songs are not emailed repeatedly.

SAFE RETRY

Failed sends stay recorded and can be retried during a later connector run.

AUDIO-FIRST

Spotify resolves the cleaned title to a track suitable for normal car playback.

Tech Stack

SourceYouTube playlist RSS
RuntimePython 3 · Oracle Cloud cron / one-time jobs
StateSQLite video-ID ledger
BridgeGmail SMTP → IFTTT Email trigger
DestinationSpotify playlist for mobile and car audio
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🎵 MYMUSIC → SPOTIFY
YouTube
Saved “Time To Say Goodbye — Andrea Bocelli” to the playlist MyMusic.
3:02 PM
Zion connector
New video ID detected → title cleaned → duplicate check passed → email sent to IFTTT.
IFTTT
Email subject used as the Spotify search query. Matching track added to “Mobile YouTube Car Music.”
Spotify
Time To Say Goodbye
Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli · audio ready for car playback
Added ✓