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Convert YouTube subscriptions exported via Google Takeout into OPML
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| # youtube-subs-to-opml.py -- Convert YouTube subscriptions exported | |
| # via Google Takeout into OPML | |
| # | |
| # See <https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/jqlks2/where_did_opml_export_go/gcdii2n/>. | |
| # | |
| # Usage: | |
| # python3 youtube-subs-to-opml.py < ~/Downloads/Takeout/YouTube\ and\ YouTube\ Music/subscriptions/subscriptions.json > yt-subs.opml | |
| import sys | |
| import json | |
| from xml.sax.saxutils import escape | |
| subs = json.load(sys.stdin) | |
| if len(subs) > 0: | |
| parent = escape(subs[0]['snippet']['channelId']) | |
| print(f'''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | |
| <opml version="1.0"> | |
| <body> | |
| <outline title="YouTube {parent}" text="YouTube {parent}"> | |
| ''') | |
| for sub in subs: | |
| title = escape(sub['snippet']['title']) | |
| channelId = escape(sub['snippet']['resourceId']['channelId']) | |
| print(f''' <outline title="{title}" | |
| text="{title}" | |
| xmlUrl="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channelId}" | |
| htmlUrl="https://www.youtube.com/channel/{channelId}" /> | |
| ''') | |
| print(''' | |
| </outline> | |
| </body> | |
| </opml> | |
| ''') | |
| # Open source under BSD-2-Clause | |
| # <https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause> | |
| # | |
| # Copyright 2021 Richard Brooksby <rptb1> | |
| # | |
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| # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions | |
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Since the last time I used this, YouTube changed the subscription list to csv instead of json. I created a fork here to support both json and csv