Delete all videos on my "Liked Videos" YouTube automatic playlist

Question

YouTube maintains an automatic playlist on my channel, called "Liked videos", with all the videos I have clicked the thumbs-up button.

For personal reasons, I want to clean up this list. (Deleting my YouTube account is not an option.)

I know I can delete the videos one by one, but that wouldn't fit my December, 2025 deadline. Is there a way (or a user script) to delete them all at once?

Answer 1

Go to the Liked playlist, open a console in the browser and write this:

var items = $('body').getElementsByClassName("pl-video-edit-remove-liked-video"); 
    for(var i = 0; i < items.length; i++){
        items[i].click();
            }

After this just hit the refresh button.

Answer 2

Here is the JavaScript code to make it in just a minute.

function sleep(ms) {
    return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}

async function deleteLikedVideos() {
    'use strict';
    var items = document.querySelectorAll('#primary ytd-playlist-video-renderer yt-icon-button.dropdown-trigger > button[aria-label]');
    var out;

    for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
        items[i].click();
        out = setTimeout(function () {
            if (document.querySelector('tp-yt-paper-listbox.style-scope.ytd-menu-popup-renderer').lastElementChild) {
                document.querySelector('tp-yt-paper-listbox.style-scope.ytd-menu-popup-renderer').lastElementChild.click();
            }
        }, 100);
        await sleep(500); // sleep cause browser can not handle the process
        clearTimeout(out);
    }
}

deleteLikedVideos();

Tried it and it works, as it deleted all of my 200+ videos.
Last Edited: December 2021

Answer 3

You can make the list private your privacy settings. I don't think it is possible to automate the process without making some sort of script for it (which I do not have the knowledge to be able to code one).

This might seem mundane, but the easiest way I can see of selectively removing videos from the playlist would be by going to "My Liked Videos" and clicking x on each one. Again, there might be a script that would make this easier, but my knowledge of scripting is extremely limited.

Answer 4

You can use a bookmarklet to remove videos from a playlist. Still, the process will be removing one by one. But at least you don't have to do it and faster than you manually removing it.

javascript:
function d(){
   var el = document.getElementsByClassName('pl-video-edit-remove');
   if (el.length > 0) {
      el[el.length-1].click();
      setTimeout(d,300);
   }
}
d();

Copy this code. On your bookmark bar, right-click → New Bookmark → Paste this code into the location. Then go to you "Liked videos" videos page and click on this bookmark. It will start to remove the videos from the bottom to top order.