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BowDown097 edited this page Oct 13, 2023 · 2 revisions

This is a guide for getting login credentials manually, which is needed for distributions of this program which have Qt's web engine disabled. This guide will be for Firefox, but there will likely be a lot of overlap with Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Brave, blablabla) anyway.

This process is complex. Good thing is after doing it once, you don't need to do it again unless you want to add another account.

Getting the Credentials

See this page.

Putting It Into QtTube

  1. In the account menu:
    • Get your username (NOT HANDLE!) at the very top.
    • Get your avatar (profile picture) URL by right clicking your avatar and selecting "Copy Image Link".
    • Get your channel ID by right clicking the "Your channel" button, selecting "Copy Link Location", and getting it from the very end of the link. For example, in https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNS_SVARzlsk5t1SdJ7zB8w, the channel ID would be "UCNS_SVARzlsk5t1SdJ7zB8w" (without the quotes).
  2. Go to QtTube's data directory.
    • On Windows, this'll be in C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Local\QtTube.
    • On macOS, this'll be in ~/Library/Preferences/QtTube.
    • On Linux, this'll be in ~/.config/QtTube.
  3. Create a file called store.ini.
  4. Inside of this file, put all the data you gathered in the last step in this format:
[<YOUR CHANNEL ID HERE>]
active=true
apisid=<YOUR APISID HERE>
avatarUrl=<YOUR AVATAR HERE>
hsid=<YOUR HSID HERE>
sapisid=<YOUR SAPISID HERE>
sid=<YOUR SID HERE>
ssid=<YOUR SSID HERE>
username=<YOUR USERNAME HERE>
visitorInfo=<YOUR VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE HERE>
  1. Save the file, and if you're in the popup telling you about manually doing this stuff, just click "OK". If not, restart QtTube.
  2. You should be logged in!

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