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Generate dates in front-matter from vim:
:r! date +\%Y-\%m-\%dT\%H:\%M:\%S\%:z
:r! date +\%Y-\%m-\%dT\%H:\%M:\%S\%:z
:r! date -Iseconds
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title = "Exporting YouTube Subscriptions to OPML and Watching via RSS"
date = 2024-05-06T10:38:22+10:00
#[extra]
#updated = 2024-02-21T10:05:19+10:00
[extra]
updated = 2024-05-06T20:24:23+10:00
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This post describes how I exported my 500+ YouTube subscriptions to an OPML
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without futzing around with Google API keys and APIs I needed to download the
HTML of each channel page.
To do that I generated a config file for `curl` from the JSON file:
First I generated a config file for `curl` from the JSON file:
jaq --raw-output '.[] | (split("/") | last) as $name | "url \(.)\noutput \($name).html"' subscriptions.json > subscriptions.curl
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- `TITLE`, `XML_URL`, and `URL` are escaped.
- Finally we generate a JSON object with the title, URL, and RSS URL and write it into a `json` directory under the name of the channel.
**Update:** [Stephen pointed out on Mastodon][sedmonds] that the HTML contains the usual
`<link rel="alternate"` tag for RSS auto-discovery. I did check for that initially but
I think the Firefox dev tools where having a bad time with the large size of the YouTube
pages and didn't show me any matches at the time. Anyway, that could have been used to
find the feed URL directly instead of building it from the `og:url`.
Ok, almost there. That script had to be run for each of the channel URLs.
First I generated a file with just a plain text list of the channel URLs:
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[feedbin-sharing]: https://feedbin.com/help/sharing-read-it-later-services/
[OpenGraph]: https://ogp.me/
[feedbin-search]: https://feedbin.com/help/search-syntax/
[sedmonds]: https://aus.social/@popcorncx/112392881683597817