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.
Matthew's Score
4/5
Total Actions
9
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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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
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Copy YouTube playlist link”
end tell
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Grab YouTube playlist ID
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