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I spent 2 months looking for a music video I swear I’d watched. YouTube’s watch history did not help at all, not to mention it would sometimes break while scrolling so I couldn’t get that far.
I finally found it by exporting my Google Takeout data, selecting only YouTube data, and then loading the watch history file in a text editor and searching for things like “music video” and “official video”. I found it in about 2 minutes.
I spent 2 months looking for a music video I swear I’d watched. YouTube’s watch history did not help at all, not to mention it would sometimes break while scrolling so I couldn’t get that far.
I finally found it by exporting my Google Takeout data, selecting only YouTube data, and then loading the watch history file in a text editor and searching for things like “music video” and “official video”. I found it in about 2 minutes.