Open my YouTube playlists

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

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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Get Dictionary from Input
Makes a dictionary from the text passed as input. JSON (like {“foo”: “bar”}), key-value pairs (like foo=bar&baz=biz), and XML-based plist are supported.
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Set Variable
Sets the value of the specified variable to the input of this action.
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Get URLs from Input
Returns any links found in the output from the previous action.
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URL
Passes the specified URL to the next action.
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Run Shortcut
Run an shortcut from your shortcut.
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Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
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Get Type
Returns the type of every item passed as input. For example, if a URL is passed, this action will return “URL”.
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Choose from List
Presents a menu of the items passed as input to the action and outputs the user’s selection. Prompt The instruction provided when the list is presented. Select Multiple When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.

Extra Details

Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20my%20YouTube%20playlists
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20my%20YouTube%20playlists
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Open my YouTube playlists” end tell

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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.

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