[Feautre Request] Add new videos from subscriptions to a playlist

[DejayRezme]

First my apologies if this is the wrong place to ask or discuss this and thanks for all the work in making youtube better though YTC!

I've long looked for a way to automatically add all new videos in my subscribed channels to a playlist, or click something like a "watch new videos" button. Essentially I want to use youtube as a kind of TV replacement. I've subscribed to quite a few channels over time now. But instead of just turning the TV "on" to just view all the new stuff I have to click once for each new video in one window (hitting the small rectangle for watch later), then click another link to start the playlist, then empty the playlist. This is what I do every other day and costs time and is kinda annoying. I just don't get why it's so complicated and don't understand why there isn't more interest in this feature!

• Doesn't google WANT me to use youtube as a kind of TV replacement? Is there a sort financial downside?
• Why don't more people want this feature? Why isn't there a simple to use chrome app or userscript for this? I've tried googling it a few times and there seems to be very little interest in this.

Someone actually did make an addon for this but it works through getting gmail notifications, filtering and labeling them and then importing them into a spreadsheet. Someone in the reddit thread linked below commented on a way to make this easier. Unfortunately I'm just starting out with learning javascript/HTML5 so I wouldn't know where to start really. https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/3br98c/a_way_to_automatically_add_subscriptions_to/

But it's no magic.. you need 3 requests:

• get the subscriptions
• get the uploads-list ID from each subscription-channel
• get the video ID's from each upload-list.

Lastly would youtube center even be a good place to add this functionality or should this maybe be a separate small addon / chrome extension for youtube?

Cheers and thanks again for making and maintaining YTC!

[ackoujens]

Grew tired of this too. Created this userscript to add all currently loaded video's on the subscriptions page to my "watch later" playlist. https://github.com/ackoujens/youtube-subcriptions-watch-later

[DejayRezme]

Thanks, that's an excellent idea! I tried it out. Does it only add one video at a time when clicking the "add to watch later" button?

Another alternative I found is youtube hotkeys which has a key bind "x" that hides all watched videos and reorder them.

[ackoujens]

Oh it should add allot of them when on https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions Still working on it though. Also skips watched video's.

Note that video's that load in while scrolling down won't get added until you scroll down to let them load in and afterwards press the icon again.

Edit: if your question was about the inner workings, I use a jQuery selector to get an array of the "watch later" buttons and then press them in a for loop