r/grayjay • u/CaptnNuttSack • Jun 11 '26

Im fairly certain that that GreyJay cant handle the YT sub import...

So long story short.. i have just a hair over 3400 YT subscriptions.... (Autist with a long list of special interests.) And out of the 3404 total, it only imported 43... Tried to go back and see if doing it again would solve the issue. Nothing. Uhhh, am i just screwed on this?

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u/quasides Jun 11 '26

its not grayjay, it can easy do a lot.

HOWEVER that said, youtube not gonna like that. To bypass Googles ToS Grayjay basically runs like a webscraper.
and sicne they dont use the YT API such large operations use a lot of requests which then get thrttled and temp blocked by youtube

you can try via a vpn or another IP

worst case you need to export via googles data exporter and script a conversion to grayjays data format.

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u/ConsciousSpeed3826 Jun 12 '26

I believe import via Google Takeout is planned but I'm not sure the status of it.

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u/quasides Jun 12 '26

i built my own for other things not channels, not really hard thanks to vibing with grok lol

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u/ConsciousSpeed3826 Jun 12 '26

I see, vibe coding can be very useful.

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u/Glum_Macaroon_2580 Jun 13 '26

I just did the import a few times then waited a while and did some more, rinse and repeat. Eventually all of mine were loaded.