What

Generate an opml file for your youtube subscriptions to use with an rss reader. ..or just a list of channel names or URLs.

Why

Youtube used to have this button

This unfortunate button has been deleted by the dark overlords at youtube and is now a thing of the past

How

Go to https://takeout.google.com/takeout/custom/youtube
Choose Data >> Deselect everything except for subscribtions

Click Next >> Choose Export Once >> Click Create Export >> Click Download

The name of the file you get might depend on your locale, but it should be something like subscriptions.json

Configure 📂 ytexport.js

// Replace subscriptions.json with the path to your youtube subscriptions json file
var subs = require('./subscriptions.json');

run ytexport.js using nodejs

node ytexport.js > subscriptions.opml

Other

Last tested Linux 5.9.10, fish 3.1.2, node v15.3.0 - 2020-12-16T00:27:43 CET

If there are any problems open an issue.

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