Change YouTube subscription import instructions to Google takeout

[Stypox]

What is it?

• Bugfix (user facing)
• Feature (user facing)
• Codebase improvement (dev facing)
• Meta improvement to the project (dev facing)

Description of the changes in your PR

This are the new steps:

1. Go to this URL: https://takeout.google.com/takeout/custom/youtube
2. Log in when 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 and
6. From the downloaded takeout zip extract the .json file (usually under "YouTube and YouTube Music/subscriptions/subscriptions.json") and import it here

Point 7, i.e. extracting things from the archive, can't be done automatically, due to the different structure for different localizations.

Fixes the following issue(s)

Fixes #4720

Relies on the following changes

TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#452

APK testing

@simula67 @inigosola @Djay86 @IvanProgramming @saecki
app-debug.zip

Due diligence

• I read the contribution guidelines.

[TobiGr]

Instructions should also be changed on the website: https://newpipe.schabi.org/FAQ/tutorials/import-export-data/

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/website/blob/master/_tutorials/import-export-data.html

[Djay86]

Tested the .apk, import worked with no isssue.

[IvanProgramming]

Tested .APK file, no issues was found

[saecki]

Works for me too.

[Stypox]

I updated the url to https://takeout.google.com/takeout/custom/youtube , see the extractor PR for discussion
app-debug.zip

[simula67]

@Stypox The import works with the debug app.

Thanks for doing this.

[atar-axis]

Works, the only issue is that google sends you an archive and you will have to extract the json by hand. You should therefore maybe also note that on the instructions or let newpipe extract it if necessary

[Stypox]

@atar-axis as I said I don't think we can have NewPipe extract the json automatically, sincs different localizations have different names and structures

[atar-axis]

I think all we need to do is extracting the .zip and searching for the json where it says [ { ..., "kind" : "youtube#subscription", ... } ] should be pretty easy I guess.

[Stypox]

@TobiGr this should also be merged, it is only a string change

[atar-axis]

The instructions don't tell the user to extract the file and find the subscriptions.json on beforehand of importing. At least those instructions should be added before merging

[Stypox]

@atar-axis no, it does: From the downloaded takeout zip extract the .json file (usually under "YouTube and YouTube Music/subscriptions/subscriptions.json")

[atar-axis]

So then it is an translation issue, it doesn't on the german version. Thanks for clarification!

[atar-axis]

I think all we need to do is extracting the .zip and searching for the json where it says [ { ..., "kind" : "youtube#subscription", ... } ] should be pretty easy I guess.

@Stypox what do you think about that? I could give it a try, shouldn't be too hard

[Stypox]

So then it is an translation issue, it doesn't on the german version.

@atar-axis Oh, yeah, translations will be there only after syncing WebLate ;-)

@Stypox what do you think about that? I could give it a try, shouldn't be too hard

I am not sure if that would work out perfectly (maybe there are still issues in some localizations? idk). Anyway, after a second thought I think we should detect automatically if the user is passing us a json file directly (in which case we parse it as we do currently) or a zip archive (in which case we try to look for the json). This should bring us the best of both worlds, since we would both be able to pass a single file and the whole archive. Feel free to open a PR in the NewPipe repo (imo it's better not to put this part in the Extractor since it has to do with files, zips, etc.). Thank you :-D

[ochen1]

The APK worked like a charm! Thanks for doing this!