YouTube Playlist to Markdown Bookmarklet

This browser bookmarklet extracts the video titles and links from a YouTube playlist (on your own account) and saves them to a Markdown-formated plain-text file.

Features

• Extracts video titles and links from a YouTube playlist.
• Generates a list of Markdown links formated as: [page_title | channel_name on YouTube](page_URL "tags, add_date:YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS"), with add_date as the date the Markdown link list was generated.
• Downloads the results to a text file with the playlist name and the extension .md.

Installation

1. Copy the JavaScript code in the yt-plst-to-md.min.js file.
2. Create a new bookmark in your browser and give it a name (e.g. "Save YT Playlist to MD").
3. Replace the bookmark's URL with the JavaScript code you copied in step 1.
4. Save the bookmark.

Usage

To use this bookmarklet, follow these steps:

1. On your own YouTube account, browse to the playlist edit page from which you want to extract the video titles and links.
   • Browse to https://www.youtube.com/feed/library
   • Scroll down to the "Playlists" section
   • Click "View full playlist" on playlist.
2. Click the bookmark you just created to run the bookmarklet.
3. A download will automatically start with a file named after playlist (e.g., My Playlist.md).
4. Open the downloaded file using a Markdown editor or any text editor to view the list of video titles with clickable links.

Note: If no videos are found in the playlist, an alert will be displayed notifying you of the empty playlist.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome.

License

Copyright (c) 2023-present · Vasco Saint Basil Andrew Brown II  · MIT License