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Jessime / youtube_history

A quick analysis of all Youtube videos in a user's history.
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Unclear whether you need html, json or both formats from takeout #12

Closed felciano closed 2 years ago

felciano commented 2 years ago

When requesting Youtube data via takeout, there appears to be an option for the history data to be provided in either html or json format. This produces both the watch-history and search-history files in that format. youtube_history seems to want one of them in html format and the other in json format--is that correct? So do you need to do two passes through takeout to get both formats?

Jessime commented 2 years ago

Hey! Does this edit to the README make things clear enough? https://github.com/Jessime/youtube_history/commit/3b2ed1643b12a7fc1f5891e678af8f74e6a3c286

I don't do anything with the search history file (though, maybe that would be an interesting addition).

felciano commented 2 years ago

It does, thank you. Closing this as resolved.

Out of curiosity, why did you decide to parse/scrape the raw html instead of just reading in from the json version of the history?

Jessime commented 2 years ago

I wish I had a good answer for you, but I think I just came across the html format first, haha.