This repository contains a tool to help you manage and clean up your YouTube Watch Later playlist by automatically removing videos based on specified criteria.

From your PC, open the Youtube 'Watch later' page

Open 'dev tools' of browser (by press 'F12' or 'Ctrl + Shift + I') Then define the javascript function from the Console,

function extractSetVideoIds(data) { const videoIds = [];

try { const tabs = data.twoColumnBrowseResultsRenderer.tabs; tabs.forEach(tab => { const sections = tab.tabRenderer.content.sectionListRenderer.contents; sections.forEach(section => { const items = section.itemSectionRenderer.contents; items.forEach(item => { const videos = item.playlistVideoListRenderer.contents; videos.forEach(video => { if (video.playlistVideoRenderer && video.playlistVideoRenderer.setVideoId) { videoIds.push({ setVideoId: video.playlistVideoRenderer.setVideoId, action: "ACTION_REMOVE_VIDEO" }); } }); }); }); }); } catch (error) { console.error('Error parsing data:', error); }

return videoIds; }

right click on the 'edit_playlist?prettyPrint=false' request -> Copy -> Copy as cURL (bash)

Here is an example, curl 'https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/browse/edit_playlist?prettyPrint=false'
-H 'accept: /'
-H 'accept-language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.9'
-H 'authorization: '
-H 'content-type: application/json'
-H 'cookie:
-H 'origin: https://www.youtube.com'
-H 'priority: u=1, i'
-H 'referer: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL'
-H 'sec-ch-ua: "Not)A;Brand";v="99", "Google Chrome";v="127", "Chromium";v="127"'
-H 'sec-ch-ua-arch: "x86"'
-H 'sec-ch-ua-bitness: "64"'
-H 'sec-ch-ua-form-factors: "Desktop"'
-H 'sec-ch-ua-full-version: "127.0.6533.100"'
-H 'sec-ch-ua-full-version-list: "Not)A;Brand";v="99.0.0.0", "Google Chrome";v="127.0.6533.100", "Chromium";v="127.0.6533.100"'
-H 'sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0'
-H 'sec-ch-ua-model: ""'
-H 'sec-ch-ua-platform: "Windows"'
-H 'sec-ch-ua-platform-version: "10.0.0"'
-H 'sec-ch-ua-wow64: ?0'
-H 'sec-fetch-dest: empty'
-H 'sec-fetch-mode: same-origin'
-H 'sec-fetch-site: same-origin'
-H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
-H 'x-client-data: '
-H 'x-goog-authuser: 1'
-H 'x-goog-visitor-id: '
-H 'x-origin: https://www.youtube.com'
-H 'x-youtube-bootstrap-logged-in: true'
-H 'x-youtube-client-name: 1'
-H 'x-youtube-client-version: 2.20240808.00.00'
--data-raw '{"context":{"client":{"hl":"zh-CN","gl":"FR","remoteHost":"81.65.162.131","deviceMake":"","deviceModel":"","visitorData":"","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36,gzip(gfe)","clientName":"WEB","clientVersion":"2.20240808.00.00","osName":"Windows","osVersion":"10.0","originalUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL","platform":"DESKTOP","clientFormFactor":"UNKNOWN_FORM_FACTOR","configInfo":{"appInstallData":""},"userInterfaceTheme":"USER_INTERFACE_THEME_LIGHT","timeZone":"Europe/Paris","browserName":"Chrome","browserVersion":"127.0.0.0","acceptHeader":"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7","deviceExperimentId":"","screenWidthPoints":1029,"screenHeightPoints":953,"screenPixelDensity":1,"screenDensityFloat":1,"utcOffsetMinutes":120,"connectionType":"CONN_CELLULAR_4G","memoryTotalKbytes":"8000000","mainAppWebInfo":{"graftUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL","pwaInstallabilityStatus":"PWA_INSTALLABILITY_STATUS_CAN_BE_INSTALLED","webDisplayMode":"WEB_DISPLAY_MODE_BROWSER","isWebNativeShareAvailable":true}},"user":{"lockedSafetyMode":false},"request":{"useSsl":true,"consistencyTokenJars": ... ,"internalExperimentFlags":[]},"clickTracking":{"clickTrackingParams":"COkBENOuBBgIIhMIqreqsoLphwMV6thJBx1pzQBs"},"adSignalsInfo":{"params":[{"key":"dt","value":"1723244602359"},{"key":"flash","value":"0"},{"key":"frm","value":"0"},{"key":"u_tz","value":"120"},{"key":"u_his","value":"12"},{"key":"u_h","value":"1080"},{"key":"u_w","value":"1920"},{"key":"u_ah","value":"1040"},{"key":"u_aw","value":"1920"},{"key":"u_cd","value":"24"},{"key":"bc","value":"31"},{"key":"bih","value":"953"},{"key":"biw","value":"1012"},{"key":"brdim","value":"0,0,0,0,1920,0,1920,1040,1029,953"},{"key":"vis","value":"1"},{"key":"wgl","value":"true"},{"key":"ca_type","value":"image"}],"bid":"ANyPxKqLbd2u8tJqNxGK-XkvWmYP92vOJPTOoDU96hFo63K_z0jP0q7qggfM-rIaXVgVA6ZzSsMelEQVN42FXUlgFOB-P8eVpQ"}},"actions":[{"setVideoId":"5FC1E3418B9A81AE","action":"ACTION_REMOVE_VIDEO"}],"params":"CAFAAQ%3D%3D","playlistId":"WL"}'

• Back to Console, then launch js

JSON.stringify(extractSetVideoIds(ytInitialData.contents))

• Copy the content
• Replace the array of videoId by the copied content

• by Postman or by Powershell