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    export subscriptions.csv

Visit Google's Takeout site to download your youtube subscriptions.
run convert.sh


Note: This depends on GNU date to output the correct date format. I don't use BSD utils, so YMMV. You might want to update the date line to a hard coded value (e.g. Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:37:58 -0600, though I don't think it matters.)

chmod +x convert.sh
./convert.sh

output

The output should look something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<opml version="2.0">
    <head>
        <title>Youtube Subscriptions</title>
        <dateCreated>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:47:09 -0600</dateCreated>
        <!-- If you're using BSD date utils you might want to use the following -->
        <!-- Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:37:58 -0600 -->
    </head>
    <body>
        <outline title="Youtube" text="Youtube">

           <outline title="sample" xmlUrl="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=fakechannel-id" type="rss"/>

        </outline>
    </body>
</opml>

import into opml app

I've setup gPodder to download my Youtube videos. This takes forever.
disabling subscriptions

Once its finished, you can unsubscribe from all the channels at once using the sqlite cli:
UPDATE podcast
SET pause_subscription = 1
WHERE (  pause_subscription = 0 AND section = 'Youtube' );

Verify:
SELECT title, pause_subscription FROM podcast where (  pause_subscription = 1 AND section = 'Youtube' );


## 02_convert.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash


set -e
set -u

cat << EOF > opml-head.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<opml version="2.0">
    <head>
        <title>Youtube Subscriptions</title>
        <dateCreated>$(date +"%a, %d %b %Y %T %z")</dateCreated>
        <!-- If you're using BSD date utils you might want to use the following -->
        <!-- Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:37:58 -0600 -->
    </head>
    <body>
        <outline title="Youtube" text="Youtube">
EOF

awk -F\, '{printf "           <outline title=\""$3"\" xmlUrl=\"https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id="$1 "\" type=\"rss\"\/\>\n"}' subscriptions.csv >opml-part.xml

cat << EOF > opml-foot.xml
        </outline>
    </body>
</opml>
EOF

# clean up errors
sed -i -e 's/.*Channel Title.*//' -e 's/.*title=\"\" .*//' -e 's/\"\"/\"/' opml-part.xml

cat opml-head.xml opml-part.xml opml-foot.xml > opml-subscriptions.xml
rm opml-{head,part,foot}.xml
	#!/usr/bin/env bash


	set -e
	set -u

	cat << EOF > opml-head.xml

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
	<opml version="2.0">
	<head>
	<title>Youtube Subscriptions</title>
	<dateCreated>$(date +"%a, %d %b %Y %T %z")</dateCreated>
	<!-- If you're using BSD date utils you might want to use the following -->
	<!-- Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:37:58 -0600 -->
	</head>
	<body>
	<outline title="Youtube" text="Youtube">
	EOF

	awk -F\, '{printf " <outline title=\""$3"\" xmlUrl=\"https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id="$1 "\" type=\"rss\"\/\>\n"}' subscriptions.csv >opml-part.xml

	cat << EOF > opml-foot.xml
	</outline>
	</body>
	</opml>
	EOF

	# clean up errors
	sed -i -e 's/.Channel Title.//' -e 's/.title=\"\" .//' -e 's/\"\"/\"/' opml-part.xml

	cat opml-head.xml opml-part.xml opml-foot.xml > opml-subscriptions.xml
	rm opml-{head,part,foot}.xml
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