Import YouTube history

You can import your YouTube history associated to your account.

Doing this will only import the opened count. We can't determine the watched time as it is not given and the opened time would make too many requests to the YouTube API. Also the import process will only import data for the days where no data was recorded by the extension. This is to avoid counting the same videos twice as the extension doesn't save the IDs of the videos watched.

If you really want to import all the YouTube history, including the days where the extension have data, please reset your settings from the options page.

Procedure

1. Open this page.
2. Click Deselect all.
3. Scroll to Youtube and check it.
4. Click on Multiple Formats, scroll to History and switch it to JSON.
5. Click on All YouTube data included and only check history.
6. Click on Next Step.
7. Choose what you want in there and then click Create archive.
8. Wait for the mail to arrive and download the archive.
9. Open the archive and extract the file watch-history.json that should be in Takeout/YouTube/history.
10. Open the extension (YouTubeTracker) settings and click the Import YouTube history button.
11. Select the watch-history.json file.