Playlist Wrangler

About

Your YouTube Watch Later is where good videos go to get lost. You save things meaning to come back, and weeks later it is a wall of hundreds or thousands of videos with no way to search it. Playlist Wrangler fixes that. It turns any YouTube playlist into a fast, searchable, filterable library, and everything runs locally in your browser.

Index a playlist once and all of it becomes findable. From there you can search it, filter it down, and even play your results in order as a temporary playlist, without building anything by hand.

What you can do, practically:
- You saved five stand-up clips over the weekend. Filter to them, click play, and they run one after another as a temporary playlist. No manual playlist, no clicking between videos.
- It is late and you have twenty minutes. Filter your Watch Later to short videos and actually clear a few.
- Long drive ahead. Pull up every talk and podcast over an hour and play them back to back.
- Cooking dinner. Filter one channel down to its recipe videos and let them roll.
- Friends are over. Search your liked music for one mood, like lo-fi, Punjabi, or hip-hop, and let it play straight through like a station you built.
- You saved something weeks ago and forgot the title. Search across every playlist at once and find it in seconds.

Play any slice as a playlist: Filter or search to the set you want, click any video, and it plays that one and the rest of your list in order as a temporary YouTube playlist, with autoplay and next working normally (up to 50 at a time). A play-all for any part of your library, with no playlist to create or maintain.

Search and filter: instant search across titles and channels; filter by category, channel, source playlist, length, language, age, view count, like count, captions, and your own tags; stack filters; sort or shuffle.

Smart, automatic categories, index depth (Quick / Full / Deep with YouTube's own category, keywords, description, and exact stats), one-click add to playlists anywhere on YouTube, a side-panel manager across every indexed playlist, CSV export, and fully local, no API / OAuth / sign-in / quota.

Just getting started: This is the first version, and it already does a lot. There is much more planned, and if it gets traction I will keep building quickly. If something is missing or could be better, the feedback form built into the extension comes straight to me.

Note: "YouTube" is used only to indicate compatibility. Playlist Wrangler is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google.