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A lightweight tool to help clean up your YouTube Watch Later playlist
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🛠Patch 1.0.1 – Bug Fixes
Fixed: Improved handling of video dragging issues when reordering videos in the Watch Later playlist.
(Note: YouTube’s own interface has underlying bugs in this area; this patch reduces the extension’s interference but cannot fully fix YouTube’s native behavior.)
YouTube Watch Later Cleaner
Easily manage and bulk delete videos from your YouTube Watch Later playlist
Description
YouTube Watch Later Cleaner is a lightweight Chrome extension that helps you
organize your YouTube Watch Later playlist with powerful filtering and bulk
management tools. Perfect for users with hundreds or thousands of saved
videos who need to quickly clean up their list.
Key Features
🔄 Load All Videos
- Automatically loads your entire Watch Later playlist (even if you have
thousands of videos)
- Works around YouTube's lazy loading to ensure you see everything
🔍 Smart Filtering
- Filter by watch progress: Not Started, In Progress, or Watched
- Filter by video length: Short (<5min), Medium (5min-1h), or Long (>1h)
- Combine filters to find exactly what you're looking for
âś… Bulk Selection
- Individual checkboxes on each video for precise control
- Select All / Deselect All buttons for filtered results
- Real-time statistics showing video count and selection
🗑️ Safe Bulk Deletion
- Delete multiple videos at once with confirmation
- Progress tracking with ability to cancel mid-operation
- Human-like interaction delays to avoid triggering YouTube's rate limits
⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts
- L - Load all videos
- F - Focus on filter dropdown
- D - Delete selected videos
How It Works
1. Navigate to your YouTube Watch Later playlist
2. The extension adds a clean toolbar above your videos
3. Click "Load All" to load your entire playlist
4. Use filters to narrow down videos you want to manage
5. Select videos individually or use "Select All"
6. Click "Delete Selected" to remove unwanted videos
Privacy & Security
- No data collection - Everything runs locally in your browser
- No external servers - All operations happen directly on YouTube
- Shadow DOM isolation - Clean integration that doesn't interfere with
YouTube
- Open source - Transparent code you can verify
Perfect For
- Content creators managing research videos
- Students organizing educational content
- Anyone with a cluttered Watch Later playlist
- Users who want to clean up old, watched videos
Technical Details
- Works entirely client-side as a content script
- Uses YouTube's existing interface for safe video removal
- Minimal performance impact
- Compatible with YouTube's latest interface updates
Note: This extension only works on YouTube Watch Later playlists and requires
no special permissions beyond accessing YouTube pages.
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Install now to take control of your YouTube Watch Later playlist!
Latest reviews
- (2025-07-23) TR Merche: works perfect, much easier to clean my 999+ videos
- (2025-07-21) David PerthWA: Fantastic idea, great instructions and documentation, but for me it simply doesn't remove any videos from my list.
- (2025-07-17) XpreS'4 Studio: Doesnt do anything
- (2025-05-31) Unofficial Link: It works great, but constantly makes the order refresh so it makes it hard to move the videos around.