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.
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.
Matthew's Score
4/5
Total Actions
16
Shortcut Information
This shortcut uses a quick-and-dirty method of isolating the playlist ID from a YouTube URL by splitting around the URL parameters and leaving off anything after.
If no ID is found it will pop up an alert, but otherwise this works seamlessly in the background/inside another shortcut using Run Shortcut.
If no ID is found it will pop up an alert, but otherwise this works seamlessly in the background/inside another shortcut using Run Shortcut.
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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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Get Item from List
Returns one or more items from the list passed as input. You can get the first item, the last item, a random item, the item at a particular index, or items in a range of indexes.
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Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Grab%20YouTube%20playlist%20ID
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Grab%20YouTube%20playlist%20ID
AppleScript
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Grab YouTube playlist ID”
end tell
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