How to Remove All Videos From Watch Later Playlist in Youtube in 2020

Bulk remove all clips from your playlist with a script

My YouTube “Watch Later” playlist contains more than 600 videos.

Every time something remotely interested me, I put it on that playlist. “I can always watch it later, when I have time.”

Unsurprisingly, I never had the time. Some of the clips are longer than one hour.

“Let’s delete all videos from my Watch Later playlist - tabula rasa.”

That’s a nice thought, but YouTube doesn’t allow you to bulk delete videos from a playlist.

I could live with manually clicking on the trash icon for a few clips, but over 600!?

Searching for a solution yielded some results from reddit, but they don’t work anymore as YouTube changed their interface.

A Script to Delete All Videos

I found a GitHub Gist that solves my problem.

You have to switch to the old interface
Go to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL&disable_polymer=true.
Open the developer tools of your browser
For Firefox or Chrome: F12 or CTRL+Shift+I on Linux.

Open the “Console” and paste this script:

var timer = window.setInterval(function () {
  var videoDeleteButton = document.querySelector('.pl-video-edit-remove')
  if (videoDeleteButton) {
    videoDeleteButton.click()
    setTimeout(function () {
      document.querySelector('.yt-uix-load-more').click()
    }, 5000)
  } else {
    window.clearInterval(timer)
  }
}, 1000)

(edit: I updated this script in 2023 thanks to this blogpost).
The script searches for the delete button and uses a timer to execute the delete function.

Hit the Enter key to execute the script.
Leave the browser window open until your playlist is empty.

How to Remove All Videos From Watch Later Playlist in Youtube in 2020

A Script to Delete All Videos

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