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woefe / ytcc

Command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places.
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youtube subscription export doesn't work anymore #94

Closed FredjeVa closed 3 years ago

FredjeVa commented 3 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager doesn't offer export option anymore, yopml file from google takeout should be made compatible or a script to convert them could be provided, as I have no access to an original subscription export I wasn't able to create one

TrevCan commented 3 years ago

Hey, I just found out that you can access your youtube subscriptions through here: https://takeout.google.com .

Unfortunately, they are accessible only in a JSON format

  1. After accessing the website, click on Create new export and Deselect all.
  2. Scroll down to 'Youtube and Youtube Music.
  3. Then click on 'All Youtube Data Included' and again,
  4. click on 'deselect all' and check only the subscriptions entry.
  5. After that, click on next,
  6. click on Create Export
  7. decompress the downloaded .zip file, you should end up with a json file called subscriptions.json

After that, you should be able to use a JSON to OPML parser, such as this one: https://iuriioapps.com/tools/youtube-subs-opml/ which sort of worked, after downloading the OPML file like half of my subscriptions weren't there. Nevertheless, I'm working on a patch that can parse this json file and feed it into ytcc

TrevCan commented 3 years ago

Hello @FredjeVa , I've found a way to download your YT subscriptions using Google Takeout, more info in this readme.

I have fixed this issue! See PR #95 or run the code from my branch and let me know if it works! I've already tested this with my subscriptions and it definitely works!

woefe commented 3 years ago

The takeout does not give a JSON any more, AFAIK. It only produces a CSV file.

woefe commented 3 years ago

The CSV importer is implemented in 10b6f55