YouTube Search Toolkit (Unofficial)

About

YouTube Search Toolkit (Unofficial) is a Chrome extension that helps you compose, save, and launch YouTube search URLs from a side panel — without scraping, automation, or API calls. The extension only generates URLs and opens them in your existing browser session.

═══ What it does ═══

A guided builder for YouTube's keyword search with preset filter combinations (today, this week, this month, HD, long-form, CC license, channels, playlists). The presets are emitted as YouTube's opaque `sp=` filter token. A live URL preview updates as you compose, and every search can be saved to your local library for one-click re-use.

Note: the `sp=` token is inferred from YouTube's UI and may need refreshing if YouTube renames or reshuffles its presets.

═══ Use cases ═══

• Today's uploads on a topic: <keyword> with the "Today" preset —
  newsroom-style monitoring of fresh content.

• Long-form, HD-only research scan: <keyword> with "Long (>20 min) +
  HD" combined — deep-dive viewing without sifting Shorts.

• CC-licensed clips for a project: <keyword> with the "Creative
  Commons" preset — ready-to-cite material.

• Channels-only discovery: <keyword> with the "Channels" filter —
  find creators on a topic without wading through videos.

• This-week playlists on a topic: <keyword> with "Playlists" + "This
  week" — surface freshly curated lists.

═══ What it does NOT do ═══

• No background scraping. No content scripts running on page load.
  No scheduled fetches.
• No automation. No clicks, no API calls, no scraping of
  youtube.com.
• No data leaves your device. Saved searches and settings live in
  chrome.storage.local. The Export JSON feature writes to a file on
  your disk; nothing is sent over the network.

═══ Permissions used and why ═══

• storage: Persist user-defined saved searches, tags, and settings
  locally.
• sidePanel: Render the UI as a Chrome side panel so you can keep
  the Builder open while browsing.

═══ Privacy ═══

Full privacy policy: https://gvensan.github.io/social-chrome-plugins-home/privacy/youtube.html

The extension declares no host permissions and runs no content scripts. It makes no network requests other than navigating tabs to URLs you explicitly composed.

═══ Source & support ═══

Source code: https://github.com/gvensan/social-chrome-plugins
Support: https://github.com/gvensan/social-chrome-plugins-home/issues

Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google.