Last updated: 10 November 2026
yt-subscribe is a personal tool used only by its owner's household. It is not offered to the public, and it has no users other than the owner's own Google account.
With the account holder's consent, yt-subscribe uses the YouTube Data API
with the read-only scope youtube.readonly. It uses that access
for one thing: to read the list of channels the account subscribes to. It
does not read watch history, comments, playlists, or any other account data,
and it cannot change anything on the account.
For each subscribed channel it stores the channel's public ID and title, and which of the channel's public RSS feeds it follows. These are kept in a private database on hardware the owner runs. The OAuth refresh token is kept in a private secrets store on the same infrastructure.
Nothing is sold, shared with, or disclosed to anyone. The data is used only to keep the owner's own RSS reader subscribed to the same channels.
yt-subscribe's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Access can be revoked at any time from the Google account's third-party connections page. After that, yt-subscribe can no longer read the subscription list.