Get videos from the currently opened YouTube history page

Sorting through your YouTube watch history to find specific videos or track topics can quickly become overwhelming, especially when it's filled with content you didn’t save to playlists. This Playbook makes it easy by automatically extracting video details from your open YouTube history page, capturing essentials like titles, URLs, and watch dates all in one go.

Perfect for content creators revisiting sources or researchers tracking past tutorials, this automation lets you gather and organize your history with minimal effort. Instead of scrolling endlessly or missing key content, you’ll have a clear, organized list at your fingertips, ready to search, review, or even analyze.

With this tool, keeping track of your YouTube history is simplified, saving time and making your watch habits easy to reference.

Let’s set it up!

Step 1: Pin the playbook

You will be redirected to install the browser extension when you run it for the first time. 

Click the “Pin it” button at the top of this page to get this automation saved to your Playbooks, if you already have the Bardeen extension installed.

To use the Playbook, navigate to a YouTube history page.

Step 2: Run the playbook to get videos from the currently opened YouTube history page

To get videos from YouTube history page, activate Bardeen (or hit Option + B on Mac or ALT + B on PC on your keyboard) and click to “run the playbook”.

The playbook will then show you the result on the screen. It will give you information like title, video link, author, author link, views, description, preview image and more.

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