How to create a playlist form a list of links (not from bookmarks)?

Question

I have something like that https://pastebin.com/ssmtZhW2 how do I convert this to a YouTube playlist?

Answer 1

also, you can create it manually if you take this URL and add comma separated IDs:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch_videos?video_ids= like:

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch_videos?video_ids=AwyRYse4kss,QoitiIbdeaM,drlB2RT_XiA,etc...

3. then paste it into the browser's search box and hit ENTER

4. this will create a special playlist URL called "Untitled Playlist" where you will have your videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rL1HcFc-Fg&list=TLGG2e3mUQob0B0wOTA5MjAxOA

SIDE NOTE: unfortunately there is one downside... such playlist is limited only to 50 videos

5. to save such playlist, be sure that you are logged in into youtube

6. add &disable_polymer=true at the end of the URL and hit ENTER

https://youtu.be/watch?v=0rL1HcFc-Fg&list=TLGG2e3mUQob0B0wOTA5MjAxOA&disable_polymer=true

7. then, somewhere around Subscribe button will appear + Add to button (or 3-dot/3-slash button with plus sign)

8. select Create a new playlist name it and press Create button

9. done!

Answer 2

SPREADSHEET YOUTUBE PLAYLIST GENERATOR:

here I wrote a simple spreadsheet playlist generator: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ just add youtube links in any desired order and press that red text in cell B1 to play it.

Answer 3

there is also an online tool: http://roll.io/

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• copy these IDs extracted from URLs and paste it there
• press Run my list! button and you are good to listen

NOTE: 50 video limit as well

Answer 4

A small python script

• to extract all the youtube links from the text file you.list.
• open the browser (in background) with all the videos - urllib2.urlopen(listOfVideos).
• gets the new playlist link - response.geturl().
• opens the web browser again to allow the user to edit the playlist properties webbrowser.open(playListURL).

*tested on Google Chrome

import os, io
import webbrowser
import urllib2

inputFileName = 'you.list'

def ReadMultipleDataFrom(thisTextFile, thisPattern):
    inputData = []
    file = open(thisTextFile, "r")
    for iLine in file:
        if iLine.startswith(thisPattern):
            iLine = iLine.rstrip()
            # print iLine
        if ('v=') in iLine: # https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBcDeFGH
            iLink = iLine.split('v=')[1]
            inputData.append(iLink) 
        if ('be/') in iLine: # https://youtu.be/aBcDeFGH
            iLink =  iLine.split('be/')[1]
            inputData.append(iLink)
    return inputData

videoLinks =  ReadMultipleDataFrom(inputFileName, "https")              
# print videoLinks

listOfVideos = "http://www.youtube.com/watch_videos?video_ids=" + ','.join(videoLinks)
# print listOfVideos

response = urllib2.urlopen(listOfVideos)
playListLink = response.geturl()
# print playListLink

playListLink = playListLink.split('list=')[1]
# print playListLink

playListURL = "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list="+playListLink+"&disable_polymer=true"
webbrowser.open(playListURL)

Answer 5

Spreadsheet generator is very handy.

There is also a Chrome extension for making playlist out of links.

To save generated playlist, do the following:

1. Scrolling down a little to see the recommended videos on the righthand side.
2. Putting your mouse over one of them, and clicking the "Add to Queue" button.
3. Scrolling back up and clicking the newly made "Add queue to playlist" button.

Answer 6

Here is way by replaying the API call YouTube website is making to add a video in a playlist.
This does not limit number of videos to 50 or anything and does not require any external tool.

• Open one of the videos you want to add and create a new playlist by manually adding this video to it.
• Go to another video you want to add and open network tab of browser developer tools.
• Again add this video to playlist while keeping the network tab open.
• Pick out the network request responsible for adding the video in playlist. (for me it was a POST request to https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/browse/edit_playlist?......)
• copy that request as a curl command by right clicking on it.
• There should be ID of the 2nd video in the curl command.(by ID I mean the random string that comes after v= in the video link)
• Now we want to execute this curl request for every ID we have. This can be done using many ways but I chose xargs command to do it.

something like following:

grep -o 'v=.*' videolist.txt | cut -f2 -d"=" | xargs -I {#} <copied_curl_command_with_video_ID_substituted_by "{#}">

The API call and so the curl command can change with time. note that the curl command contains bunch of identifiers and parameters which helps YouTube to identify you when adding videos to your playlist. which means it should expire after sometime.

Answer 7

Every answer mentioned here is able to create a limited list of 50 videos.

I have found a Chrome extension Multiselect for YouTube™. It allows multiselection of videos everywhere. And you can perform actions like

• Add to Queue
• Add to playlist etc.

Here is the result I just created Dr. Israr Ahmad Backup, a playlist of every video of a channel.