Open creator YouTube playlists

Presents a menu of playlists from YouTube creators and lets you open directly to their queue in the app.

Run Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20creator%20YouTube%20playlists

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20creator%20YouTube%20playlists

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Open creator YouTube playlists” end tell

For a given YouTube video passed in as input, this isolates the URL parameter after “list=“ that represents a video playlist ID.

Presents a menu of YouTube playlists sorted into your “Personal” group, letting you choose one and open it in the app.

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.

Pulls from a dictionary of YouTube playlists and lets you pick from subgroups to open in the app.

For links shared from videos playing inside a playlist, this will scrape out the ID and reformat it into the main playlist link.

Complete dictionary of YouTube playlists in your collection, grouped by Personal or Work, then subgroups by category.

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