Better subscriptions import

[Hexavall]

Would be convenient to be able to import the subscriptions directly from youtube, newpipe, and other similar youtube-based apps.

Thanks!

[arianneorpilla]

I don't intend to involve pulling any account data into the application as I think it's very high maintenance, and I don't want to be handling any private user data. Users can get a list of channels they subscribe from third party tools and use the built-in import/export feature.

Have to turn this one down, unfortunately. I suggest going through your channels and pulling the IDs from the URLs on a desktop or something and then saving your channel IDs somewhere if ever you happen to uninstall the application.

[arianneorpilla]

As someone shared in the Refold Discord, you can use this Chrome extension to extract your channel IDs.

This will get you a text snippet of this format:

Channel 1: https://youtube.com/channel/channelID1here
Channel 2: https://youtube.com/channel/channelID2here

So, you can use RegEx to get rid of the text leading up to the channel ID:

1. Replace all .*(?=/) with nothing
2. Replace all / with nothing

This will get you a clean text file with just your channel IDs that you can import into the app. If you need any assistance with this, I would be happy to help.