Show HN: You Can Just Filter YouTube Playlists in the 'Save to Playlist' Dialog

Category: devtools

Tags: browser-extension, youtube, playlist-management, innertube-api, shadow-dom

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 9, Utility: 6)

A Chrome extension that replaces YouTube's limited 'Save to playlist' picker with a searchable, complete playlist manager that bypasses the 200-playlist cap by querying YouTube's InnerTube API directly. The 2.0 rewrite isolates the UI in a closed shadow root and avoids DOM manipulation, demonstrating a thoughtful architectural approach to maintaining a browser extension against a changing host page.

Target audience: YouTube power users and content curators

Repository: https://github.com/codyhxyz/playlist-search-extension · JavaScript · AGPL-3.0 · 1 stars

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