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What is it?

This app shows your YouTube history, grouped by months and sorted by watch count

Instructions

  1. Go to google takeout page, deselect everything except YouTube and YouTube Music.
  2. Under YouTube and YouTube Music click on Multiple formats and change history type from html to json
  3. Under YouTube and YouTube Music click on All YouTube data included and deselect everything except history
  4. click next step, choose your method and download files
  5. Open https://shalva97.github.io/Youtube_history_parser/ website and upload your file

or

  1. Install Java 11 and make sure JAVA_HOME is set
  2. Download .jar file from the Releases page (currently we have .jar file for previous release) and run it with java -jar youtube-history-all.jar watch-history.json

The output from the program is MD formatted, you can copy&paste it in your repo on Github or in Notion.

Recover removed videos

Build from source

clone the repository and in the project directory run ./gradlew shadowjar then inside build/libs folder should be a jar file which you can run with java -jar filename-all.jar history.json

this is what it looks like

Youtube Video History

2018

MARCH

APRIL

and so on...