INSTRUCTION CARD 8 OF 8
How many YouTube videos have I watched?
A friend has watched 0 YouTube videos since 2020. Your turn.
YouTube keeps every video you watched in your history, but it never gives you a number. Google's Takeout hands you that history as one file. Drop it here and this page counts the videos, on your own device: the file is never uploaded.
Get the file from Google
- Open takeout.google.com, signed in to the account you watch on. Tap Deselect all, then tick YouTube and YouTube Music.
- Tap All YouTube data included and keep only history: your own uploaded videos would make the file huge. JSON or HTML both work here. youtube-history-viewer
- Next step, Export once, .zip, Create export. Google emails you a link when the file is ready. Drop the .zip above, as it is. On an iPhone, tap the box and pick it from Files.
The page reads the file Google calls watch-history and counts its entries: one entry, one video you started. Ads and YouTube Music plays are left out; a video since removed still counts. The page shows the first and last day the file holds. Dates are read in English; in another language you get the count without them. Paused your history once? Those days are not in it. Only a computer? Count today's Shorts with a bookmark.
What happens to your file
Nothing leaves your device. The page opens the zip with your browser's own tools and keeps only the count, the first day and the last. We count that a file was counted and how many videos it held, never what you watched.
Count it from today
highscroll is a free Android app that counts every TikTok and Reel you swipe and turns the day into a high score with the distance your thumb ran. It has no internet permission and no account. You can send the day as a card, and whoever opens it adds their own score to the table.
Android only. The lock that sends you home at your own number: US$2.99.