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Convert your subscriptions csv file into a valid json for Newpipe!

Newpipe-CSV-Fixer

Convert your Google subscriptions CSV file into a valid JSON for Newpipe!

Thanks to nikcorg for sharing how to convert the CSV into a NewPipe valid JSON. This is an automation of his guide.

Table of contents

• General info
• Setup

General info

What's the process of making a NewPipe valid JSON?

• First of all, the 3 column names of the CSV must be changed to service_id,url,name.
• Then, all "http" ocurrencies are changed to "https".
• After that, the parsed CSV is converted into a JSON, that is appended into a empty list in the NewPipe JSON header {"app_version":"x.xx.x","app_version_int":xxx,"subscriptions":[]} .

Setup

NOTE: No requirements needed, as they are already in the python standart lib

Export your (empty) NewPipe subscription list

You will get something like:

{"app_version":"0.21.7","app_version_int":973,"subscriptions":[]}

Those are the headers needed to convert the CSV into a NewPipe readeable JSON, as the version declared in the JSON must coincide with the NewPipe version

Move your CSV subscription file and json header to the src dir and execute the script:

$ python3 fixer.py -f/--file [filename.csv] -j/--jsonHeader [header.json]

In case of getting UnicodeDecodeError, try encoding with cp437 or other:

$ python3 fixer.py -f/--file [filename.csv] -j/--jsonHeader [header.json] -e/--encode "cp437"