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.
Open my YouTube playlists
Pulls from a dictionary of YouTube playlists and lets you pick from subgroups to open in the app.
Shortcut Information
Use this shortcut along with YouTube Playlist Dictionary for an all-in-one opener for your various playlists, organized nicely into groups and subgroups for quicker access.
Includes options to scrape using IDs, playlist links, or, with “Scrape YouTube playlist ID” installed, links for videos inside playlists.
Includes options to scrape using IDs, playlist links, or, with “Scrape YouTube playlist ID” installed, links for videos inside playlists.
Category
Complexity
Interactivity
Actions Used
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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.
Prompt
The instruction provided when the list is presented.
Select Multiple
When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.
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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”.
⊃
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.
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
More From This Folder
Open creator YouTube playlists
Presents a menu of playlists from YouTube creators and lets you open directly to their queue 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.
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.
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