[juliendorra]

You should be able to use Google Takeout to get all of your YouTube data, including your watch history.

This article is a nice example of someone using it:

> When I downloaded all my YouTube data, I’ve noticed an interesting file included. That file was named watch-history and it contained a list of all the videos I’ve ever watched.

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/youtube-usage/

Of course as an European it's a legal obligation for companies to give you access, but I think Google Takeout works worldwide?

[yubblegum]

This can give a false sense of what Google (Alphabet) actually knows about you. That above is Google playing the game of 'ok, here is what we know of your activities on youtube when logged in!'

But Google and the rest of the "advertising" (euphemism for surveillance) industry track and create "profiles" based on a basket of data points, from ip/MAC address to the rest of their bag of tricks.

[dietr1ch]

Internally at Google a toy tool to peek into your own personal advertisement profile was released and taken down within a week or two because it was creepy knowledgeable about you.

[ariwilson]

when?

[dietr1ch]

Probably sometime around 2018 or 2019, I don't recall, but it was before the covid lockdown

[jazzyjackson]

Yes I've done this in USA. pretty neat. I have it on my todo list to parse over it and find all the music videos I've watched 3 or more times to archive them.

[toomuchtodo]

https://archive.zhimingwang.org/blog/2014-11-05-list-youtube... might be of use along with https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp, might just grab it all and prune later due to rot and availability issues over time within YT.

[viraptor]

It is available and it can be surprisingly large. I've somehow accumulated multiple GB of data from YT alone. Which feels a bit absurd - there's bound to be lots of waste there.