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Add directions to export subscriptions from YouTube -
Google recently removed the "Export Subscriptions" option from the bottom of the Manage Subscriptions page. This, combined with a bug in Google Takeout means you must follow a very specific process to export your subscriptions. It would be helpful to add the process below to the Invidious documentation somewhere:
NOTE: This process won't work if you go directly to Google Takeout. You must enter the Takeout process via YouTube as described below.
- Make sure you are signed into YouTube with the account you want to export subscriptions for.
- Click on your profile image in the upper right corner.
- Click on the "Your data in YouTube" option.
- Click "More"
- Click "Download YouTube data"
- Click "All YouTube data included"
- Click "Deselect all"
- Choose "channel-memberships"
- Click "OK"
- Click "Next step"
- Click "Create export"
- Wait for the export to complete, it should be fairly quick.
- Download the export, it will be a .zip file.
- Expand the ZIP file.
- Go to Invidious, click the little gear in the upper right corner.
- Scroll down and click "Import/export data"
- Click the "Browse" button next to "Import YouTube subscriptions"
- Browse to the path you expanded the ZIP file to, there should be a "Takeout" folder.
- Open "./Takeout/YouTube and YouTube Music/subscriptions/subscriptions.json".
- Choose "Import"
Is there any way to import the csv into invidious or will that functionality come in the future?
It's quite a janky workaround but yes! https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/2319#issuecomment-900358678
After trying like for 1 hour i found a workaround to export my subscriptions. I followed all steps described here, except the step 8 Choose "channel-memberships". In 2022 you need to choose "channel memberships" + subscriptions, or it wont work. Thanks for your post. I gave up about this till i read your post
