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Convert YouTube subscriptions exported via Google Takeout into OPML
# 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/>.
# 1. Go to youtube homepage
# 2. Click top right icon, "Your Data in Youtube"
# 3. Click "Show More"
# 4. Click "Download Youtube data"
# 5. This takes you to a similar screen as the other google takeout one, but only for youtube data. The subscription info here is more up to date.
#
# Usage:
# python3 youtube-subs-to-opml.py '~/Downloads/Takeout/YouTube\ and\ YouTube\ Music/subscriptions/subscriptions.json' > yt-subs.opml
def json_parse(filename):
import json
from xml.sax.saxutils import escape
channels = []
with open(filename, "r+") as fp:
subs = json.load(fp.read())
for sub in subs:
channels.append(
(
escape(sub["snippet"]["title"]),
escape(sub["snippet"]["resourceId"]["channelId"]),
)
)
return channels
def csv_parse(filename):
import csv
from xml.sax.saxutils import escape
channels = []
with open(filename, "r+") as fp:
reader = csv.reader(fp, delimiter=",", quotechar='"')
next(reader)
for row in reader:
if row:
channels.append((escape(row[2]), escape(row[0])))
return channels
if __name__ == "__main__":
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from os import path
parser = ArgumentParser(description="Generate youtube subscriptions OPML")
parser.add_argument("file", help="filename to parse")
args = parser.parse_args()
ext = path.splitext(args.file)[-1].lower()
if ext == ".csv":
channels = csv_parse(args.file)
elif ext == ".json":
channels = json_parse(args.file)
else:
print(f"Error, unknown extension in provided filename: {args.file}")
print(
f"""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<opml version="1.0">
<body>
<outline title="YouTube" text="YouTube">
"""
)
for channel in channels:
print(
f""" <outline title="{channel[0]}"
text="{channel[0]}"
xmlUrl="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channel[1]}"
htmlUrl="https://www.youtube.com/channel/{channel[1]}" />
"""
)
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
# are met:
#
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#
# 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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