Copy all the track files from a Clementine playlist to a separate directory.

extract-clementine-playlist-files.py

"""
Reads a Clementine playlist, and copies all the song files to a directory.
arg 1: path to the playlist
arg 2: optionally, the output directory
You can ignore the BeautifulSoup parser warning (or fi you insist, follow it's directions)
"""

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, Tag  # pip install beautifulsoup4
from shutil import copy2
from os import makedirs
from os.path import basename, splitext
from sys import argv


def copy_playlist_files(xspf_pth, target_pth=None):
    """
    Read a Clementine playlist and copy all the track files to a specific directory.
    This is useful for example when copying a playlist to your phone. (You can use Clementine Remote, but it didn't work for me).
    :param xspf_pth: A path to a clementine playlist (xspf file).
    :param target_pth: Optionally, the directory to copy files to. Defaults to a subdir of the current directory named after the playlist file.
    """
    if target_pth is None:
        target_pth = splitext(basename(xspf_pth))[0]
    try:
        makedirs(target_pth)
    except OSError:
        pass
    with open(xspf_pth, 'r') as fh:
        soup = BeautifulSoup(fh.read())
    tracks = tuple(soup.body.playlist.tracklist.children)
    for track in tracks:
        if not isinstance(track, Tag):
            continue
        loc = track.location.text.replace('file://', '')
        print(loc)
        copy2(loc, target_pth)
    print('done!')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(argv)
    assert len(argv) >= 2, 'provide a path to a playlist file, and optionally a target dir'
    xspf_pth = argv[1]
    target_pth = None
    if len(argv) >= 3:
        target_pth = argv[2]
copy_playlist_files(xspf_pth, target_pth)

Fixed a few bugs