Youtube OPML subscription list support

[splendid25]

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Is it possible to support an OPML file downloaded manually from Youtube ?

https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager?action_takeout=1
I would like to download the subscription list manually, and use the OPML as an input in youtube-dl, to avoid the use of argument --netrc and having to save/update my credentials in a netrc file.

Thanks

[TomasHubelbauer]

This feature request has been open for quite some time without a reaction from the development team. Would it be possible for someone familiar with the project to write a comment with rough description of what changes in what places need to happen to support this so the community can try and pick this up? I personally would like to try, but I also know I am pretty much guaranteed to fail because I don't have enough Python experience; that being said, if this is deemed a simple enough change by the development team, it would be a good candidate for community contribution.

[yan12125]

It will be a big change. First various RSS parsing implementations, possibly including Yahoo's MRSS, should be converged first, and them OPML can reuse it.
After that, an OPML parsing function, which may be similar to read_batch_urls should be implemented and then called from __init__.py

[siddht4]

@yan12125 was working on a similar project which uses xml as a subtitle.Have done intensive test and it worked.As opml is a subset of xml I can try with these condition too. read_batch_url is really extensive as I recently discussed with you,For @TomasHubelbauer https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/utils.py#L2047 is the part we are talking about. The new extractor or web crawler whatever it becomes needs to be imported from the file/function/program as from sys import platform for refernce.Scripts within local reach can be modified as "from .a import aa".__init__.py needs to have everything as scripts calling from outside can acces these functions via __init__.py. In python __init__.py acts like a jump gate or portal. example : if __name__ == '__main__' and __package__ is None: from os import sys, path sys.path.append(path.dirname(path.dirname(path.abspath(__file__)))) import aa