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Can't get a .csv of my subscriptions from Youtube (self.newpipe)

submitted 2 years ago by AstralPath to c/[email protected]

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After following the instructions provided by NewPipe to download my subscriptions list for import, I get a .zip file with nothing but an HTML file within. No data related to subscriptions at all. If I opt to download an export containing all my Youtube data, then I get a couple of folders for History and another data subset but nothing for subscriptions.

I thought at first this may have been an issue related to the private status of my subscriptions list on my Youtube account, but even after toggling privacy off for my subs, I still cannot get a .zip from Youtube containing a .csv of my subscriptions.

Has anyone else had this issue?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought they took that option away. When I was transferring my subscriptions over to an RSS reader, I had to go to the source code of every subscription page and get the url from the page source. I whipped up a quick bash script so it wasn't too bad, but still. Would have been nice to just get the list.

[–] AstralPath 1 points 2 years ago

Ugh that's so annoying. Super inconvenient barrier to entry. :/ Doesn't mean I'm not gonna do it though. lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@AstralPath No I recently did this with no issues. You need to make sure the subscriptions is checked. All YouTube or Google Takeout are downloaded as zip files. Folder structure name of the zip - Takeout - YouTube and YouTube Music (or maybe just YouTube) - subscriptions - and the subscriptions.csv file is in there. If you don't see this then you didn't do it right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

For me, I had to switch from my personal account to my YouTube brand account before doing the export.