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Document howto export subscriptions from YouTube - #55

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@Gestas Gestas commented Apr 17, 2021 •
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Fixes #54.

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I'd suggest breaking down the long list of steps to substeps, eg (add a tab to the beginning of sub-steps)

  1. export foo foo
    1. open link
    2. foo bar
  2. prepare file
  3. import file

Using the link, you also have to re-number. jfyi you can just have everything as 1., and they will be automagically numbered.

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7. While logged into your Invidious account go to Subscriptions -> Manage Subscriptions ->
Import/Export -> Import YouTube subscriptions, select the file you just downloaded and click on
`Import`.
**This process won't work if you go directly to [Google Takeout](https://takeout.google.com/). You must enter the Takeout process via YouTube as described below.**
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Change language from won't, must to may, better.

Confirmed just now, I can do this just fine via takeout.google.com.

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11. Click "Create export"
12. Wait for the export to complete, it should be fairly quick.
13. Download the export, it will be a .zip file.
14. Expand the ZIP file.
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Add what you end up with (what to look for, what file to upload/import); a subscriptions.json file.

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Can someone with a YT account check this?

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jtagcat commented Jun 15, 2021

I checked it on 2021-04-17, when I requested changes.

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Those instructions don't work for me - the archive contains the subscriptions, but they are in csv, not json format, and Invidious can't parse it

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Those instructions don't work for me - the archive contains the subscriptions, but they are in csv, not json format, and Invidious can't parse it

Thanks for your feedback! Do you mind sharing some (anonymized) extracts of that data? I personally can't access Google accounts anymore, they're blocking me x)

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Gestas commented Aug 3, 2021

I can confirm Google has changed the format of the export from JSON to CSV. I'll work on a new process.

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syeopite commented Aug 3, 2021

Is the bug presented on #54 still even present? I'd expect Google to have resolved the issue by now

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I haven't read the whole thread yet, but think, you need an example csv.
So here is mine (Language: German)
Abos.csv

Thank you :)

I've heard that the data given by youtube is a zip archive. Is that right?
If yes, is that CSV the only file in it?

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It gives you a ZIP. You can choose which files should be in there.
There will always be a “index” which tells you where which file is and then the files. So it's always different.

Can you please provide that index file, too? because without it, We have no way to guess the subscriptions file name without it (especially in non-english locales)

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A typo and a small grammatical mistake I think.

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Here is my whole ZIP file: takeout-20210810T160826Z-001.zip
It's in German again.
I also chose to only include the Subs.

Oh, thanks! Sorry, didn't see your message!

And that's annoying: they translate everything, even the file names.
As usual, this is a violation of the GDPR... (the "data portability" chapter explicitely say that the data should be easily parsable by a machine, which, indeed, isn't, as the data is not normalized to a single language)

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**This process won't work if you go directly to [Google Takeout](https://takeout.google.com/). You must enter the Takeout process via YouTube as described below.**

1. Make sure you are signed into YouTube with the account you want to export subscriptions from.
2. Open https://takeout.google.com/takeout/custom/youtube?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmyaccount.google.com%2Fyourdata%2Fyoutube%3Fhl%3Det%26authuser%3D0
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2. Open https://takeout.google.com/takeout/custom/youtube?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmyaccount.google.com%2Fyourdata%2Fyoutube%3Fhl%3Det%26authuser%3D0
2. Open https://takeout.google.com/takeout/custom/youtube?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmyaccount.google.com%2Fyourdata%2Fyoutube%3Fhl%3Den%26authuser%3D0

prefer hl=en, so the link may be in english (though I suspect that google doesn't take it into account and determines the language base on the IP address).

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1. Make sure you are signed into YouTube with the account you want to export subscriptions from.
2. Open https://takeout.google.com/takeout/custom/youtube?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmyaccount.google.com%2Fyourdata%2Fyoutube%3Fhl%3Det%26authuser%3D0
6. Click `All YouTube data included`.
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indexing is wrong.

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unixfox commented Mar 5, 2023

Is this still relevant?

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