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Created June 12, 2022 21:51
Migrating YouTube subscriptions from one account to another

Migrating YouTube subscriptions from one account to another

It's a pain in the butt! there's no google-provided way to do it and the extensions that were written to do it are all terrible or non-functional. Luckily, youtube runs on "computers" and "computers" can be "hackarino'd" with just a bit of encouragement. Prereqs are a) ability to follow instructions b) maybe some familiarity with bash. I'm writing this from my mac, it'll be the sameish on linux and WSL.

This is for non-"brand" accounts, cause i'm not a brand. I'm a small business man, not a small business, man. I'm not a man either but whatever.

1. Download your subscriptions with Takeout

This at least is easy.

  1. open youtube.com > profile icon > your data in youtube, should take you to myaccount.