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YouTube Watch Later Tidy
Bulk-clean your YouTube Watch Later in minutes, not hours
Your YouTube Watch Later is a graveyard. Hundreds of videos saved months ago, then one day you hit YouTube's 5,000-video limit and get locked out — unable to save anything new until you delete one. video. at. a. time. YouTube Watch Later Tidy opens a dashboard over your YouTube page that breaks down your queue by channel or by topic (like a storage manager for your playlist), then lets you filter, sort, reorder, and bulk-delete in minutes. No account, no API key, no data leaves your browser.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built this because I broke my own Watch Later.
I'd been hoarding videos for years — tutorials I'd "get to later," conference talks, recipe ideas, music to revisit. One day I tried to save another video and YouTube just... refused. Turns out Watch Later has a hard cap of 5,000 videos, and once you hit it, the only way out is to manually delete videos one at a time. There's no bulk delete. No filter. No sort. No way to even see what's in there at a glance.
I checked if YouTube's official API could help. It can't — Google explicitly blocks Watch Later access through the public Data API. So I opened DevTools, found the internal endpoints YouTube's own web app uses, and built TidyWL on top of those.
A few things I'm proud of:
🗂️ The dashboard groups your playlist by channel or by topic (auto-extracted from titles), so you can finally see what kind of mess you've built. It's modeled on macOS Storage Manager — find the biggest offenders, clean them out.
🔒 Everything runs locally in your browser. No login, no servers, no analytics, no telemetry. The extension calls YouTube's own endpoints with your existing session.
🆓 Free, no paywall, no "premium" features locked behind a subscription. There's a Ko-fi tip jar if you want to support it, but the full feature set is and will stay free.
⚠️ Honest caveat: this uses YouTube's internal (undocumented) API, so it can break if they change things. v1.3.1 added a remote-config system that can patch most parser changes without forcing an extension update, but bigger breakages will need patches.
Happy to answer questions about the reverse-engineering, the architecture, or the YouTube-cap rabbit hole. And if you try it — I'd love feedback on what to build next.
— Dominic
About YouTube Watch Later Tidy on Product Hunt
“Bulk-clean your YouTube Watch Later in minutes, not hours ”
YouTube Watch Later Tidy was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #131 on the daily leaderboard. Your YouTube Watch Later is a graveyard. Hundreds of videos saved months ago, then one day you hit YouTube's 5,000-video limit and get locked out — unable to save anything new until you delete one. video. at. a. time. YouTube Watch Later Tidy opens a dashboard over your YouTube page that breaks down your queue by channel or by topic (like a storage manager for your playlist), then lets you filter, sort, reorder, and bulk-delete in minutes. No account, no API key, no data leaves your browser.
On the analytics side, YouTube Watch Later Tidy competes within Chrome Extensions, Productivity and YouTube — topics that collectively have 720.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how YouTube Watch Later Tidy performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted YouTube Watch Later Tidy?
YouTube Watch Later Tidy was hunted by Dominic Lam. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of YouTube Watch Later Tidy including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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