How to Export Your YouTube Liked Videos (The Easy Way)

If you have been using YouTube for a few years, your "Liked Videos" playlist is probably a massive graveyard of nostalgia, old tutorials, and funny clips. But there is a huge problem with keeping all your favorite videos trapped there.

First, YouTube caps the playlist. Second, creators delete or private their videos all the time. If you don't back up your liked videos, you will eventually end up with a playlist full of dreaded "Deleted video" placeholders, with no way to remember what you actually saved.

A lot of people ask on Reddit how to export this list. Most answers point to Google Takeout (which dumps out a messy, unreadable JSON file), sketchy browser extensions that break constantly, or complicated command-line tools like yt-dlp. None of these are ideal if you just want a clean spreadsheet.

We built a tool to solve this exactly. You can connect your account safely and instantly export your entire liked videos list. Because we use the official YouTube API, it pulls your data securely without messing with your browser cookies.

Everything You Can Do With Our Export Tool

Unlike basic tools that just spit out a messy CSV, we built this to give you complete control over your data. Here is exactly what you can customize and export:

1. Export in 13 Different Formats

We don't just stop at spreadsheets. Depending on what you want to do with your data, you can check any combination of these 13 formats and download them all at once:

• Spreadsheets & Data: Excel, CSV, SQLite, JSON, XML, YAML
• Documents & Reading: Word (Docx), Markdown, Text, HTML
• Media & Browser: Bookmark HTML (drag and drop right into your browser bookmarks), M3U, and M3U8

2. Pick Exactly Which Fields You Want

Don't want clunky descriptions taking up space in your spreadsheet? No problem. You can toggle exactly which data points are included in your export file. We support 12 specific fields:

• Video Details: Video ID, Video Title, Description, Video URL
• Channel Details: Channel ID, Channel Title, Channel URL
• Dates & Metrics: Liked Timestamp (exact date you liked it), Video Published Date, Position (its rank in your playlist)
• Thumbnails: Thumbnail (Default) and Thumbnail (High)

3. Advanced Sorting Options

By default, YouTube just shows you the order you liked things in. Our tool lets you re-sort your entire playlist *before* you download it. You can sort by:

• Liked Timestamp (See your newest or oldest likes)
• Video Published Date (Find the oldest videos you've ever liked)
• Video Title (Alphabetical)
• Channel Title (Group all liked videos from the same creator together)
• Position

For any of these, you can choose Ascending or Descending order.

4. Multi-Account Support & Custom CSV Delimiters

If you have a personal YouTube account and a work or school account, you can connect multiple accounts to your profile and easily select which one you want to export from a dropdown.

Additionally, if you are working with specific database tools, you can specify a Custom CSV Delimiter (like a semicolon ; or a pipe |) instead of the default comma.

How to export your liked videos step-by-step

The whole process takes less than a minute. Here is exactly what you need to do:

1. Go to our Export Liked Videos tool.
2. If you aren't signed in, click Sign In (or sign up) and head to your Profile to connect your YouTube account securely via Google.
3. Once connected, go back to the tool page and check the formats you want (e.g., Excel or JSON).
4. Open the "Optional: Customize export" dropdown. Uncheck any fields you don't need, and set up your preferred sorting.
5. Hit the Start Export button.

Your browser will instantly download a clean, beautifully formatted file (or a ZIP if you picked multiple formats) containing your entire liked videos history.

Back up your history before it disappears

YouTube is constantly changing, and creators scrub their old videos from the internet every day. Having a local backup of your liked videos ensures that even if a video goes private, you at least still have a record of the title and the creator so you can track it down or find re-uploads.

Don't wait until half your playlist turns into hidden videos. Run your first export today and secure your internet history.