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Programming by Robert S. Robbins. This web application backs up the information on your favorite YouTube videos to an Excel spreadsheet. You can then save the Excel file to your hard drive or other media. The reason you may want to export your favorites from the YouTube database is because YouTube has been deleting the accounts of content creators who violate their terms of service. Some accounts have been deleted without warning or explanation. If your account is deleted you will lose all your favorites and have trouble finding those videos again. However, if you have backed up the video information then you can recreate your favorites on a new account. Check out my other pages to generate a tag cloud or back up your subscriptions.
Internet Explorer will pop up a File Download dialog box giving you the option to Open or Save the YouTube-Favorites.xls file. You will need Microsoft Office Excel or a program capable of opening Excel files like Open Office. If you choose to open the file you will see another dialog box warning about the file extension. This is because the Excel file is in the HTML format but is being delivered with the XLS file extension. You can safely ignore this message so just click yes.
NOTE: It is important to realize that this Excel file is in the HTML format (essentially a HTML table) and needs to be saved from Excel in the native binary format to create a true Excel file.