From f9d1bfe05f57c13a66453a69a509f170b4027e5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Taylor Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:30:15 -0700 Subject: Add instructions for importing subscriptions to README MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Closes #63 Signed-off-by: Jesús --- README.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8fc5d65..d7dfca8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -112,6 +112,16 @@ If you wish to route the video through Tor, set "Route Tor" to "On, including vi In general, Tor video routing will be slower (for instance, moving around in the video is quite slow). I've never seen any signs that watch history in yt-local affects on-site Youtube recommendations. It's likely that requests to googlevideo are logged for some period of time, but are not integrated into Youtube's larger advertisement/recommendation systems, since those presumably depend more heavily on in-page tracking through Javascript rather than CDN requests to googlevideo. +### Importing subscriptions + +1. Go to the [Google takeout manager](https://takeout.google.com/takeout/custom/youtube). +2. Log in if asked. +3. Click on "All data included", then on "Deselect all", then select only "subscriptions" and click "OK". +4. Click on "Next step" and then on "Create export". +5. Click on the "Download" button after it appears. +6. From the downloaded takeout zip extract the .json file. It is usually located under `YouTube and YouTube Music/subscriptions/subscriptions.json` +7. Go to the subscriptions manager in yt-local. In the import area, select your .json file, then press import. + ## Contributing Pull requests and issues are welcome -- cgit v1.2.3