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How to create a YouTube playlist from a list of links?
Go to bookmarks manager and select all the YouTube links and copy and paste them in a text file, say you.list, and RUN following on your terminal (assuming you use a linux system):
grep -o 'v=.*' you....
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How to copy YouTube playlist from one account to another
The top answer no longer works, but this reddit answer functions as of May 2021.
You can copy the other person's playlist to the new playlist by taking
the url of the other person's playlist, ...
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How can I view what playlist, if any, a YouTube video is in?
Short answer
For the example in the question, on Google, try something like the following:
site:youtube.com inurl:(QuqCMHe4kxQ list)
or
inurl:list QuqCMHe4kxQ
(Thanks to Annan)
Explanation
site: and ...
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How can I see the total length of all the videos in a YouTube playlist?
I made an app to do exactly that, hosted on Heroku: YouTube Playlist Length. You can also find the app repository here.
Note: it can find the total length of a playlist that has up to 500 videos. If ...
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16
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Delete all videos on my "Liked Videos" YouTube automatic playlist
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++)...
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15
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Is there a way to play all YouTube videos uploaded by a particular user?
It's subtle, and it's cheeky, but it can be done:
Given a particular channel URL:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9mPk8yIk1AUC8PDsUYFBaA
You can fiddle a little bit and:
https://www.youtube.com/...
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How to copy all videos from someone's YouTube playlist (YouTube ver. 2017)
YouTube's new interface named "Polymer" disables the playlist duplicating/editing functionality of another channel's playlist.
A workaround (for the time being) is to temporarily disable the new ...
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Is it possible to play YouTube playlists in reverse order?
I ran into a site that seems to do exactly what you asked for:
https://playlist.tools/
It allows reverse playlist playback and doesn't need you to install any browser extensions
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How do I export my YouTube playlists?
In light of deprecation of v2, the current answer is no longer works. v3 is the new version.
The documentation link - https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/playlistItems/list
This limits ...
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13
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Is there a way to search through liked videos on my YouTube account?
For me I found that History page have search at the right:
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Move "Watch later" to new Playlist
Press the "shuffle" button for you Watch Later playlist.
Add any random video to your queue by clicking on the three dots at the side of the video. You should now have a queue.
Click the &...
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10
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How to get back at least titles of YouTube videos that were deleted or became private
The only way (2019) seems to copy the youtube video raw-url ,i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwFWhqKx42f
and...
1) try that into google or bing search
2) if that doesnt help, search with ...
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Delete all videos on my "Liked Videos" YouTube automatic playlist
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';
...
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10
votes
Move "Watch later" to new Playlist
I used this Chrome extension from the great Pollux.
I have just now moved 5000 videos from 'Watch Later' to other playlists.
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votes
How can I see the total length of all the videos in a YouTube playlist?
since RedDragon's web tool returneed me an "Internal Server Error" and apparently is not maintained I made a quick few-liner that returns duration, which you can paste into devtools:
var ...
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9
votes
Is there a way to search through liked videos on my YouTube account?
Update: As of August 31 2023, the YouTube playlist search script is unfortunately no longer available.
If you have a user script manager like Greasemonkey installed, you can use the aptly named ...
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7
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What is the maximum YouTube playlist length?
The limit is 5,000. Once you hit this limit using the API you receive the following response:
{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "youtube.playlistItem",
"reason": "...
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7
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How to create a playlist form a list of links (not from bookmarks)?
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=...
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6
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How do I export my YouTube playlists?
Nowadays there are many solutions that do even more than what you requested:
http://www.playlist-converter.net/ - Convert your playlist from multiple music services and file formats
https://...
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6
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Move "Watch later" to new Playlist
I just found this great extension: Multiselect for YouTube (also available for Chrome). It creates a checkbox next to each video in a playlist (including Watch Later) and gives you multiple options, ...
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How can I view what playlist, if any, a YouTube video is in?
All methods described here seems to have stopped working. I found a way of doing it directly on the YouTube-site though that seems to work in most cases:
Search for the video title and the channel ...
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5
votes
How do I export my YouTube playlists?
Use Google Takeout.
Deselect all
Scroll all the way to the bottom for YouTube and YouTube Music and select it
Click on All YouTube data included to get sub-selections and click Deselect all
Select ...
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How do I export my YouTube playlists?
You can do it with a new site we Developed https://www.tunemymusic.com/
You can choose export from Youtube a specific playlist, all your playlists and also all your liked videos.
Then you can export ...
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5
votes
How do I export my YouTube playlists?
I've created a service called www.recovermy.video to fix this problem. See my answer on another question.
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Is it possible to add an entire playlist to my `Watch Later` list?
Yes.
As of the time of posting this answer, it's possible to add the entire contents of a playlist to the Watch Later playlist in the same way that you would any other playlist, although it's only ...
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Is it possible to retrieve the names of all my "liked videos" from my YouTube account?
Takeout allows to download an archive of your Google's data.
Select YouTube
Precise playlists
Choose the JSON format
Click 'Next'
Once your archive created, download and extract it. You can find a ...
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Is it possible to play YouTube playlists in reverse order?
You can play it in date order from oldest published to newest using this site:
http://www.playbackloop.com/
But I am still looking for a way to simply reverse order
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Prevent automatic loading of next video on YouTube (esp playlists)
One way is to remove the portion of the URL from the &list= part to the end, however, that takes you out of the playlist mode so you can't see the videos in sequence in the playlist box.
The only ...
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Is it possible to add an entire playlist to my `Watch Later` list?
This is no longer an option to do the solution listed. You can save an entire playlist but unfortunately you have to add the individual videos that are on any playlist to your "Watch Later" playlist (...
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