YouTube Watch Later Remove Script (2026 Working Script) - Use it on chrome developer console

gistfile1.txt

(async () => {
    const sleep = ms => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));

    if (!confirm(
        "Remove ALL videos from Watch Later?\n\n" +
        "This repeatedly uses YouTube's normal Remove from Watch later command."
    )) return;

    let removed = 0;

    while (true) {
        const video = document.querySelector("ytd-playlist-video-renderer");

        if (!video) {
            console.log(`Finished. Removed ${removed} videos.`);
            break;
        }

        const title =
            video.querySelector("#video-title")?.textContent?.trim() ??
            "(unknown video)";

        const menuButton =
            video.querySelector('button[aria-label="Action menu"]') ||
            video.querySelector('yt-icon-button#button button') ||
            video.querySelector('#menu button');

        if (!menuButton) {
            console.error("Could not find menu button:", video);
            break;
        }

        console.log(`[${removed + 1}] Removing: ${title}`);

        menuButton.click();

        // Give YouTube time to render the popup menu.
        await sleep(400);

        const menuItems = [
            ...document.querySelectorAll("ytd-menu-service-item-renderer")
        ];

        const removeItem = menuItems.find(item => {
            const text = item.textContent.trim().toLowerCase();

            return (
                text.includes("remove from watch later") ||
                text.includes("remove from")
            );
        });

        if (!removeItem) {
            console.error("Remove menu item not found.");
            console.log(
                "Available menu items:",
                menuItems.map(x => x.textContent.trim())
            );
            break;
        }

        removeItem.click();
        removed++;

        // Wait for YouTube to remove/update the row.
        await sleep(650);
    }
})();