YouTube Watch Later Manager

A Chrome extension that allows you to bulk manage and delete videos from your YouTube Watch Later playlist with an intuitive checkbox interface.

📋 Features

• ✅ Checkbox Selection - Add checkboxes to each video in your Watch Later playlist
• 🔄 Bulk Operations - Select all or deselect all videos with one click
• 🗑️ Bulk Delete - Delete multiple videos at once
• 📊 Progress Tracking - Real-time progress bar during deletion
• 👁️ Watch Progress Detection - Detects how much of each video you've watched, with badges on thumbnails
• 🎯 Select Watched - Auto-select all videos you've watched ≥85% of with one click
• 🎨 Clean UI - Modern, intuitive popup interface
• 🌐 Multi-language Support - Works with YouTube in different languages
• ⚡ Fast & Efficient - Lightweight and doesn't slow down YouTube

🖼️ Screenshots

Popup Dashboard

The extension popup provides a clean interface to manage your playlist:

• Check page status
• Toggle checkboxes visibility
• Select/deselect all videos
• Select all watched videos (≥85%) in one click
• Delete selected videos

Checkbox Interface

Checkboxes appear in a dedicated column next to each video, ensuring you never accidentally navigate to a video when selecting it. Videos with watch history show a colored badge: green ✓ for watched (≥85%), orange percentage for in-progress.

Progress Overlay

A beautiful progress overlay shows real-time deletion progress with success/failure counts.

🚀 Installation

From Source (Developer Mode)

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/D3m0nZOnFire/YouTube-Watch-Later-Manager.git
   cd youtube-watch-later-manager

2. Load in Chrome

   • Open Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions/
   • Enable Developer mode (toggle in top-right corner)
   • Click Load unpacked
   • Select the extension folder

3. Start using!

   • Navigate to your YouTube Watch Later playlist
   • Click the extension icon in the toolbar
   • Start managing your videos!

📖 Usage Guide

Basic Workflow

1. Navigate to Watch Later

   • Go to youtube.com/playlist?list=WL

2. Open Extension

   • Click the extension icon in your Chrome toolbar
   • The popup will show your current status

3. Show Checkboxes

   • Click "Show Checkboxes" button
   • Checkboxes will appear next to each video

4. Select Videos

   • Manually check videos you want to delete
   • Or use "Select All" to select everything
   • Or use "Select Watched (≥85%)" to auto-select videos you've mostly watched
   • Or use "Deselect All" to clear selection

5. Delete Selected

   • Click "Delete Selected" button
   • Confirm the deletion
   • Watch the progress overlay as videos are removed

Tips & Tricks

• Scroll to Load More: As you scroll down, checkboxes automatically appear on newly loaded videos
• Safe Selection: Clicking checkboxes won't navigate to the video - they're in a separate column
• Watch Badges: Green ✓ means ≥85% watched, orange % means in-progress, no badge means not started
• Progress Tracking: The extension shows real-time progress with success/fail counts
• Multi-language: Works with YouTube in any language

🛠️ Technical Details

Project Structure

youtube-watch-later-manager/
├── manifest.json          # Extension configuration
├── popup.html            # Extension popup UI
├── popup.js              # Popup logic and communication
├── content.js            # Content script (runs on YouTube)
├── styles.css            # Styles for YouTube page elements
└── README.md             # This file

Technologies Used

• Manifest V3 - Latest Chrome extension standard
• Vanilla JavaScript - No dependencies, lightweight
• Chrome Extension APIs - Tabs, Scripting, Messaging
• CSS3 - Modern styling with gradients and transitions

How It Works

1. Content Script Injection: The extension injects content.js into YouTube pages
2. Page Detection: Checks if the current page is the Watch Later playlist
3. DOM Manipulation: Adds checkbox elements to the video list dynamically
4. Message Passing: Communication between popup and content script via Chrome's messaging API
5. Video Deletion: Simulates clicking YouTube's native "Remove from Watch Later" option

🔒 Privacy & Permissions

Required Permissions

• activeTab - To interact with the current YouTube tab
• scripting - To inject content scripts into YouTube pages
• https://www.youtube.com/* - To access YouTube pages

Privacy Commitment

• ✅ No data collection - We don't collect any user data
• ✅ No external requests - All operations are local
• ✅ No tracking - We don't track your usage
• ✅ Open source - Full transparency of the code

🐛 Known Issues & Limitations

• The extension only works on the Watch Later playlist page
• YouTube's rate limiting may slow down very large batch deletions
• Some videos may fail to delete if YouTube's UI changes
• Requires manual refresh after deletion to see updated video count

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Here's how you can help:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Development Setup

# Clone your fork
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/youtube-watch-later-manager.git

# Create a branch
git checkout -b feature/my-feature

# Make your changes and test locally
# Load the extension in Chrome Developer Mode

# Commit and push
git add .
git commit -m "Description of changes"
git push origin feature/my-feature

📝 TODO / Roadmap

• Add keyboard shortcuts
• Implement undo functionality
• Add video filtering options
• Export selected video list
• Dark/light theme toggle
• Settings page for customization
• Support for other playlists
• Video preview on hover

⭐ Show Your Support

If you find this extension useful, please:

• ⭐ Star this repository
• 🐛 Report bugs
• 💡 Suggest new features
• 🔀 Submit pull requests

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Note: This extension is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.