[Feature Request]: Show playlist or playlist link if video is part of playlist

[toby63]

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• I have searched the issue tracker for a feature request that matches the one I want to file, without success.

Problem Description

Sometimes a video is part of a playlist and I would like to be able to see this playlist, even if the video creator does not link to it.

Proposed Solution

Maybe it is possible to read out the necessary information and then:

• display a link to the playlist
• implement the playlist itself on the right (could be an option in the settings)

Alternatives Considered

Issue Labels

new feature

Additional Information

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[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Hmm but what if the video is linked to lets say 100 playlists?

[toby63]

Hmm but what if the video is linked to lets say 100 playlists?

Never came across something like this.
I only saw 2 playlists linked to a video at most.
But maybe there could be a solution for this as well.
For example only showing 1 or 2 playlists.
I don't know about the youtube api, maybe there is something like a main playlist or ranked playlists.
At least it could be limited to the playlists of the channel that the video is from.

[PrestonN]

I'm not sure if I'm fully understanding what's being requested. Are you asking if you're watching a video and that video happens to be a part of any playlist, then show a link to that playlist? We would only realistically be able to provide this if you're already inside of the playlist in question (which doesn't seem to be the case) or if YouTube provides this information on the watch page, which I don't believe it does. If it does then we can provide this information, if it doesn't then we will have to close this issue.

[ChunkyProgrammer]

I had a quick look and it could potentially work if the video has a unique enough name but would otherwise return false positives (getting playlists a video is in is done by searching video title in quotes and searching for playlists only ). To fix the issue of false positives, it could only display playlists created by the uploader (like you said). Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31136758

Edit: if this were to be implemented I think it should be implemented like comments where you click to load the playlist links so it doesn't send any extra web requests unless the user wants it to

[toby63]

I'm not sure if I'm fully understanding what's being requested. Are you asking if you're watching a video and that video happens to be a part of any playlist, then show a link to that playlist?

Yes thats what I want.

We would only realistically be able to provide this if you're already inside of the playlist in question (which doesn't seem to be the case) or if YouTube provides this information on the watch page, which I don't believe it does. If it does then we can provide this information, if it doesn't then we will have to close this issue.

I mostly start videos from inside the playlist, but the second (less likely) scenario would also be useful.

I had a quick look and it could potentially work if the video has a unique enough name but would otherwise return false positives (getting playlists a video is in is done by searching video title in quotes and searching for playlists only ). To fix the issue of false positives, it could only display playlists created by the uploader (like you said). Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31136758

Maybe it would be possible to just search inside the channel of the video uploader.
I am not informed enough about the youtube api, but this looks interesting: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/playlists/list

Edit: if this were to be implemented I think it should be implemented like comments where you click to load the playlist links so it doesn't send any extra web requests unless the user wants it to

I agree, good idea.

[PrestonN]

Just to clarify, we are not using the YouTube API. We are grabbing information from the YouTube website itself. This means that there is data that the YouTube API might provide that we don't have access to. If you can not access the necessary data by navigating around the YouTube website to get it, then we can't get it either.

[ChunkyProgrammer]

The way to go about getting this information is not optimal. There's a good chance of being able to access it through navigating the YouTube website if the video title is unique enough but it's not guaranteed to have the video in the playlist (ex could just have someone's reaction to the video).

Step 1) Get title of video you want

Step 2) Search title in quotes (show playlists only)

Result:

[toby63]

Just to clarify, we are not using the YouTube API. We are grabbing information from the YouTube website itself. This means that there is data that the YouTube API might provide that we don't have access to. If you can not access the necessary data by navigating around the YouTube website to get it, then we can't get it either.

Interesting, didn't know that.

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