documentation/Export-YouTube-subscriptions.md
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Export-YouTube-subscriptions Howto export YouTube channel subscription. true 2021-04-17T00:00:00.000Z markdown 2021-01-28T20:39:23.334Z

Some details may differ based on your Google language settings.

This process won't work if you go directly to Google Takeout. 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 for.
  2. Click on your profile image in the upper right corner.
  3. Click on the "Your data in YouTube" option.
  4. Click "More"
  5. Click "Download YouTube data"
  6. Click "All YouTube data included"
  7. Click "Deselect all"
  8. Choose "channel-memberships"
  9. Click "OK"
  10. Click "Next step"
  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.
  15. Go to Invidious, click the little gear in the upper right corner.
  16. Scroll down and click "Import/export data"
  17. Click the "Browse" button next to "Import YouTube subscriptions"
  18. Browse to the path you expanded the ZIP file to, there should be a "Takeout" folder.
  19. Open "./Takeout/YouTube and YouTube Music/subscriptions/subscriptions.json".
  20. Choose "Import"