Connect your YouTube account
Link your YouTube account to open playlists and uploads, and privately personalize Popular now.
Connect your YouTube account
Connecting your YouTube account tunes the Popular now shelf using your subscriptions and liked videos. It also opens the Playlists and Your Videos tabs for your YouTube playlists and channel uploads. Loved and History hold your activity inside Vid Receipts and work without connecting YouTube.
How to Connect
You can start the connection from two places:
- From Home: look for "Connect YouTube · Personalize your feed" near the Popular now shelf, or "Continue with YouTube" 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 summarizing 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 personalized Popular now shelf. Your subscriptions and liked videos privately help order its recommendations. We never show a score built from those signals or display your YouTube likes. Your Loved list holds only videos you hearted inside Vid Receipts.
- Your channel uploads on the Your Videos tab.
- Your YouTube playlists listed on the Playlists tab. Their videos can be opened here while the playlist is public or unlisted. A connected account can show its own private playlist details, but opening its videos still requires public or unlisted visibility.
- Enhanced video metadata for a richer annotation experience.
Keeping your feeds fresh
When background syncing is enabled for your account, playlists and subscriptions are eligible for a refresh on a six-hour schedule. Finishing one refresh late does not skip the next scheduled check. Busy periods, quota limits, or connection errors can delay a refresh. Manual refreshes keep their ten-minute cooldown. Additional backup checks run only during scheduled refreshes.
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 recommendations, 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:
- Go to Settings → YouTube section.
- Click "Disconnect YouTube Account".
- Your Vid Receipts account and all your receipts remain completely unaffected.
- You can reconnect at any time, and your playlists and subscriptions are rebuilt within a few seconds. Refreshing them by hand works at most once every ten minutes; the shelf says when the next refresh is available.
You can also revoke access at any time through your Google Account settings.
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