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Clean YouTube Watch Later Videos
// Version 2.0.1
// This script will remove all videos from watch later list
//
// Usage
//
// #1 go to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL
// #2 run following script in your browser console
(async function() {
const playlistName = document.querySelector('.metadata-wrapper #container #text')?.textContent || document.querySelector('#text')?.textContent
if(!playlistName) {
alert(`Couldn't determine playlist name!`)
return
}
if(!confirm(`Are you sure to delete ALL videos from ${playlistName}?`)) {
return
}
console.info("start...")
while(true) {
const videos = document.querySelectorAll('#primary ytd-playlist-video-renderer')
if(videos.length == 0) break
for (let videoElement of videos) {
const videoTitle = videoElement.querySelector('a#video-title')
console.info(`Remove Video\n`
+ ` Title: ${videoTitle.innerText}\n`
+ ` URL: ${videoTitle.href}`)
const actionMenuButton = videoElement.querySelector('#menu #button')
console.debug("click actionMenuButton", actionMenuButton)
actionMenuButton.click()
const removeButton = await untilDefined(() => document.evaluate(
`//tp-yt-paper-listbox/ytd-menu-service-item-renderer[./tp-yt-paper-item/yt-formatted-string/span[text() = '${playlistName}']]`,
document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue)
console.debug("click removeButton", removeButton)
removeButton.click()
await sleep(200)
}
}
console.info("done!")
// === util functions ========================================================
async function sleep (timeout) {
return new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, timeout))
}
async function untilDefined(factory, checkInterval = 100) {
while (true) {
const value = factory()
if (value != null) return value
await sleep(checkInterval)
}
}
})();
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qoomon commented Apr 28, 2023

thx @othyn, I fixed it

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sandorex commented May 1, 2023

I've been testing my fork for few months that does not require lang specific options and modifications, could use more people trying it, also it's a Violentmonkey script
https://gist.github.com/sandorex/6bdd51ef467a079c87f19ba469a8bc7c
Feel free to take the code if you want

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qoomon commented May 2, 2023

@sandorex thanks a lot, I've updated my script to your provided solution to get rid of language specific configuration.

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sandorex commented Aug 8, 2023

It seems youtube did something so the script broke a bit, change

const playlistName = document.querySelector('.metadata-wrapper #container #text')?.textContent

to

const playlistName = document.querySelector('#text')?.textContent

The id stayed the same for a while now so im hopeful it wont need more fixing for a while 😄

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qoomon commented Aug 9, 2023

@sandorex thx a lot, however for me it' works as expected with document.querySelector('.metadata-wrapper #container #text')?.textContent

@sandorex
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Weird it works for me now too, it did not work yesterday for some reason

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sutkovyi commented Apr 3, 2025

thank you

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