Open personal YouTube playlists
Presents a menu of YouTube playlists sorted into your “Personal” group, letting you choose one and open it in the app.
Copy YouTube playlist link
For links shared from videos playing inside a playlist, this will scrape out the ID and reformat it into the main playlist link.
Shortcut Information
Use this shortcut to generate the proper playlist link for any videos that you’ve shared from a playlist queue.
For people using my YouTube Playlist Dictionary and “Open My YouTube playlists,” this also works as a way to copy out the proper playlist link from the dictionary (helpful if you’ve used playlist IDs or video-in-playlist links in that dictionary).
For people using my YouTube Playlist Dictionary and “Open My YouTube playlists,” this also works as a way to copy out the proper playlist link from the dictionary (helpful if you’ve used playlist IDs or video-in-playlist links in that dictionary).
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Actions Used
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If
Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.
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Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Copy%20YouTube%20playlist%20link
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Copy%20YouTube%20playlist%20link
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Copy YouTube playlist link”
end tell
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Open creator YouTube playlists
Presents a menu of playlists from YouTube creators and lets you open directly to their queue in the app.
Show YouTube library
Opens the link to the Library tab of YouTube, which shows your History, Watch Later, Playlists, and Liked Videos.
Grab YouTube playlist ID
For a given YouTube video passed in as input, this isolates the URL parameter after “list=“ that represents a video playlist ID.
Open work YouTube playlists
If you don’t want the Grab YouTube playlist ID shortcut installed, delete the Run Shortcut action above and the URL action below.
However, the shortcut won’t work with links from videos inside playlists anymore.
YouTube Playlist Dictionary
Complete dictionary of YouTube playlists in your collection, grouped by Personal or Work, then subgroups by category.
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