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// Apologies for the hacky nature of the below - it was just bothering me so I threw this together for myself.
// I used this in firefox, just go to the manage subscriptions page in youtube and run it in the developer console. It should work in chrome as well, I forget if there is a different browser function to copy to the clipboard.
// After running it, just paste it into a file and save it with a '.ompl' extension.
function youTubeToOPML() {
output = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n<opml version="1.0">\n<head>\n<title>Feed Subscriptions</title>\n</head>\n<body>\n<outline title="Youtube Subscriptions" text="Youtube Subscriptions">';
arrOfATags = [...document.querySelectorAll('a#main-link')];
rss = arrOfATags.forEach(item => {
const {href, innerText} = item;
const data = {
channelID: "",
title: "",
userID: "",
}
if (href.includes('channel')) {
data.channelID = href.replace("https://www.youtube.com/channel/","https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=");
} else if (href.includes('user')) {
data.userID = href.replace('https://www.youtube.com/user/',"https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=");
}
data.title = innerText.split('\n')[0];
OPMLLine = `<outline type="rss" xmlUrl="${data.channelID + data.userID}"/>\n`;
output += OPMLLine;
})
output += '</outline>\n</body>\n</opml>'
return output;
}
copy(youTubeToOPML());
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aaronclimbs commented Nov 16, 2020 via email

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asorel1942 commented Nov 16, 2020

Yep, that's actually what I've been doing since my last comment. The HTML tag needed seems to be. <outline title="Youtube Subscriptions" text="Youtube Subscriptions"> </outline>, wrapped around the feeds.

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After some testing manually adding those tags to the output of your script does seem to work fine, so if you want to add that to your script feel free.

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