T-vK / subscriptions-extractor

Extract subscriptions from NewPipe and Skytube backups in youtube's xml format

Subscriptions extractor

Requirements

On Linux and Mac OS, you need to install git, unzip, sqlite3 and jq. On Android you need to install Termux and in Termux you then need to install git, unzip, sqlite3 and jq. On Windows you need to enable the Ubuntu subsystem and then install git, unzip, sqlite3 and jq from there.

Usage

Open a terminal and run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/T-vK/subscriptions-extractor.git
cd subscriptions-extractor
bash subscriptions-extractor.sh path/to/your/inputfile > output.xml

path/to/your/inputfile can be a path to one of these:

• sbscriptions.db (FreeTube before the 2020 rewrite)
• NewPipeData-........zip (NewPipe)
• skytube-...............skytube (Skytube)
• subs.db (Skytube)
• newpipe.db (NewPipe)

output.xml is the file to which is created or overwritten and will contain all your subscriptions in the youtube xml format.