Script to extract youtube urls from a json file returned by the google takeout export.

extract_urls.py

"""
Extract youtube urls from a json file returned by the google takeout export.
Usage : python extract_urls.py <name of json file>
"""
import logging
import argparse
import json
from pathlib import Path

logger = logging.getLogger()


def main():
    args = parse_args()

    with open(args.file, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
        content = json.loads(f.read())

    ids = [
        "https://youtube.com/watch?v=" + x["contentDetails"]["videoId"]
        for x in content
    ]

    with open(f"Export_{Path(args.file).stem}.txt", "w") as f:
        for i in ids:
            f.write(i + "\n")


def parse_args():
    format = "%(levelname)s :: %(message)s"
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description="Extract youtube urls from a json file returned by the google takekout export."
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--debug",
        help="Display debugging information.",
        action="store_const",
        dest="loglevel",
        const=logging.DEBUG,
        default=logging.INFO,
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "file",
        help="Youtube playlist JSON file from a google takeout export.",
        type=str,
    )
    parser.set_defaults(boolean_flag=False)
    args = parser.parse_args()

    logging.basicConfig(level=args.loglevel, format=format)
    return args


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Hi, I am receiving this error when trying to run on my Google Takeout - Youtube Liked Videos json file:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "extract_urls.py", line 55, in
main()
File "extract_urls.py", line 17, in main
content = json.loads(f.read())
File "C:\Users\ycola\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 520: character maps to

Would you happen to have come across this before?

Hi, I am receiving this error when trying to run on my Google Takeout - Youtube Liked Videos json file:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "extract_urls.py", line 55, in
main()
File "extract_urls.py", line 17, in main
content = json.loads(f.read())
File "C:\Users\ycola\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 520: character maps to

Would you happen to have come across this before?

I've never had this kind of issue, but it seems to be an encoding error.

You can try forcing utf-8 decoding by changing the line 16 of the script with this one:
with open(args.file, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:

(I also updated the gist reflecting the change)

It worked, thank you very much!