Youtube history stats parser

A node.js parser to extract data from Youtube History HTML file.

The default console output will show you your history sorted by number of watch. Here for example is the video I watched the most in my history data:

Getting the data

To get your history data :

• Go to https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
• Login with the account you want the data from
• Then unselect all data source with the dedicated button
• Go to the bottom of the page and check YouTube et YouTube Music then Next step
• Select Export one time then Create an export
• You will be informed by email when the export is ready.
• You want to look for the Takeout/YouTube and YouTube Music/history/watch-history.html in your export uncompressed folder

Installation

IT requires Node.js to run.

Install the dependencies and devDependencies. Build the typescript

yarn build

Place your watch-history.html file in build/assets/watch-history.html Launch the script (this could take a while)

yarn start

Customization

As you can see in the src/interface.ts, there is more data than the ones shown in the console by default :

export interface YoutubeVideo {
  url: string;
  title: string;
  channel: {
    name: string;
    url: string;
  };
  watchDates: string[];
}

You can already select only a year by using src/filters/filterDataForYear

License

Apache-2.0