shakeelmohamed/dont-watch-later

Version 0.2.1 no longer works all the time

shakeelmohamed opened this issue · 0 comments

YouTube's watch later playlist can be identified by by a random string such as PLewO2v_CPMGvQ9743PgRgbu-tshfcxxxx, instead of WL.
This can be reproduced by clicking the watch later link on the homepage, then clicking a video in the watch later playlist:

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I don't have an obvious solution for this at the moment

It seems the list querystring href value is populated based on the current page's URL. Which means...

  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLewO2v_CPMGvQ9743PgRgbu-tshfcxxxx -> will add list=PLewO2v_CPMGvQ9743PgRgbu-tshfcxxxx to links to all videos in the playlist
  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL -> will add list=WL to links to all videos in the playlist.