Connecting your YouTube account

Connecting your YouTube account

Connecting your YouTube account gives you a personalized experience on Vid Receipts: a For You shelf built from your subscriptions, your existing playlists as one-click stacks, and a Discover feed that surfaces recent uploads from channels you follow and leans toward what you actually watch, all without leaving the app.

How to Connect

You can start the connection from two places:

• From the dashboard: when you haven't connected yet, look for the red "Connect YouTube · Personalise your feed" pill next to the For You / Subscriptions / Playlists tab strip, or the larger "Continue with YouTube" card in the right rail.
• From settings: open Settings → YouTube and click "Connect YouTube Account".

The first time you connect, Vid Receipts shows a short explainer summarising what we'll access (your channel name, subscriptions, playlists, liked videos) and what we'll never do (post, like, subscribe, or modify anything). Click Continue with Google and Google's standard sign-in window opens. Pick the YouTube account you want to use, keep the YouTube checkbox ticked, and you'll be returned to Vid Receipts with everything wired up.

You can re-open the explainer any time by clicking the small "Why?" link next to the Connect button.

Troubleshooting

The popup didn't open. Your browser blocked it. Allow popups for vidreceipts.com in your browser settings, then click Connect again.

The wrong Google account loaded. If you're signed in to multiple Google accounts in this browser, the popup may default to one you didn't intend. Use the "Use another account" option in the popup to pick the right one. Tip: keep the account chooser open by leaving prompt=consent enabled (which we do by default).

"This app isn't verified." This warning appears while Google reviews our app for the YouTube data permission. It's safe to continue. Vid Receipts only requests read-only access. The warning will disappear once Google completes verification.

"You need to grant the YouTube read-only permission." Means you un-ticked the YouTube checkbox on the consent screen. Click Connect again and leave that box checked.

"Your YouTube session expired. Please reconnect." Refresh tokens occasionally expire (especially on accounts that haven't used the integration in a while, or if you revoked access from your Google account). Just click Connect again.

Still stuck? Email us at info@vidreceipts.com with a screenshot of the error toast, the toast title and description are enough for us to diagnose.

What connecting gives you

• A smarter Discover feed. Your subscriptions and the videos you've liked on YouTube privately shape Discover, bringing recent uploads from channels you follow into the mix and ordering everything toward what you actually watch. We never show you a score or number built from it, and your liked videos are never displayed publicly. (Your Loved list stays exactly what you hearted inside Vid Receipts.)
• A personalised For You shelf built from your subscriptions and watch history.
• Your YouTube playlists opened as stacks, ready to receipt.
• Enhanced video metadata for a richer annotation experience.

Privacy

Vid Receipts uses read-only YouTube scopes. We never post comments, like videos, or subscribe on your behalf. Your subscriptions and liked videos are used only to personalize your own Discover feed, never sold, never shared, and never shown as a derived metric. If you disconnect (or your authorization lapses), we delete this YouTube data within 30 days. You can disconnect at any time from Settings.

Disconnecting your YouTube account

If you ever want to unlink your YouTube account:

1. Go to Settings → YouTube section.
2. Click "Disconnect YouTube Account".
3. Your Vid Receipts account and all your receipts remain completely unaffected.
4. You can reconnect at any time.

You can also revoke access at any time through your Google Account settings.

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