Importing playlists

[ruggeriruggero]

First of all thank you so much for the new playlists feature, but it seems that it's still not possible to directly import the .csv files that youtube generates when you export your data, as Freetube only seems to accept .db files.
Is there any workaround for this? Any way to convert the .csv files into .db?

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Importing Playlists from YT isnt supported yet. There is no official way to convert this.

[papyrazzi]

Hello, I work on Linux Mint V22, and Freetube v0.21.3 Beta - In the settings, it is possible to download your subscriptions (it works) and your playlists, but no .csv files are present in the explorer of file (while they are good there).
What is the solution ?

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Hi @papyrazzi im not sure i understand your question. Is it possible for you to rephrase this

[TurtleDino]

This is from a different developer, but you could try https://pypi.org/project/freetube-import/ in the meantime.

[AtomicRobotMan0101]

+10 points for @TurtleDino

Its exactly correct. Install freetube-import via the terminal using the appropriate python pypl installers (different linuxen do this differently, so generically...)... pip install freetube-import

I use Mint, so it prohibits pip install (the PEP668 thing) so one must use pipx install freetube-import

It does have two dependencies though: tqdm and normalizer. The last may already be on thy system (use pip list to see if its there)... if not, install them via pip install tqdm normalizer (or pipx)

Usage is dead easy.

My exports are:

$ ls
'Excellent videos.csv'  'plasticity videos.csv'   playlists.csv  'python videos.csv'  'Watch later videos.csv'

usage is $ freetube-import 'Excellent videos.csv'

Reading file Excellent videos.csv, the playlistfile has 10 entries
writing to file Excellent videos.db
100%|  ███████████████████████████| 10/10 [00:09<00:00,  1.00it/s]
Task failed successfully! Excellent videos.db written, with 8 entries

The just go into Freetube and import the resulting DB file. Done!