Watch Later Tidy for YouTube™
Search, filter and bulk-clean your YouTube Watch Later
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Search, filter and bulk-clean your YouTube Watch Later
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Search thousands of saved YouTube videos by title, channel or tag, then filter, sort and bulk delete. Works on Watch Later, Liked videos and your own playlists, in Chrome, Edge and Firefox. No account or API key, and your playlists stay on your device.
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.
🔒 Your playlists stay on your device. No login, and the extension calls YouTube's own endpoints with your existing session. Since v1.6.0 it sends tidywl.com a small anonymous usage report (a random install ID and counts like videos deleted, never titles or video IDs), and Pro checks its licence key. Everything that leaves your browser is listed at tidywl.com/privacy
🆓 Free to use, with an optional Pro subscription that adds automatic clean-up rules, undo, Pin and the Lineup. There's still a Ko-fi tip jar if you want to support it.
⚠️ 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
Update, September 2026: it's now called Watch Later Tidy, runs on Chrome, Edge and Firefox, and has an optional Pro tier. I've corrected the privacy and pricing lines below.