How to Bulk Delete All Youtube’s Watch Later Videos in January 2022

When seeing a good Youtube video, it is common for people to add it to Watch Later list to “watch later”. The problem is that the list keeps adding up and becomes bigger and bigger.

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When the Watch Later list becomes too big, it will loose its purpose of keeping track of wanted videos. Users start deleting watched videos or uninteresting ones. But they must click “Remove from Watch later” for a hundreds of videos. In most cases nobody wants to do that.

Bulk-deleting is the solution everyone loves. Youtube has Delete watched videos feature which delete videos you already watched. Even if you only watch 1 second of a video, it is also deleted. What about videos we haven’t watched? We still need to find a way to delete them in bulk.

So Youtube still lacks the much-needed mass delete features. Fortunately, we can execute a JavaScript block of code to mass delete Watch Later videos.

Steps to Remove All Watch Later Videos at Once

1) Open your Youtube Watch List in web browsers like Chrome or Brave.

2) Press F12 to open developer’s console or access it via web browser’s Menu.

3) Navigate to Console tab.

4) Paste this script into the console and press Enter.

Updated: 2021/09/24

Here are the scripts I used to delete videos on my Watch later list:

One of the following scripts can work for you. Try both to see which one sticks. The following script was modifed to work with recent Youtube changes.

setInterval(function() {
	document.querySelector('#contents button[aria-label="Action menu"]').click();
	var things = document.evaluate('//span[contains(text(),"Watch later")]',document,null,XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,null);
		for (var i = 0; i < things.snapshotLength; i++) {
		    things.snapshotItem(i).click();
		}		
}, 1000);

setInterval(function() {
	document.querySelector('#primary button[aria-label="Action menu"]').click();
	var things = document.evaluate('//span[contains(text(),"Watch later")]',document,null,XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,null);
		for (var i = 0; i < things.snapshotLength; i++) {
		    things.snapshotItem(i).click();
		}		
}, 1000);

After pressing Enter, you will see videos disappearing one by one. When the script executes, it open the menu of each video popup item and click on the Remove from Watch Later menu item.

Apply the script in different language

Thanks Xerus for reporting bout the script not working in other languages. Here is how to apply it for other languages:

• Find the text of the hidden menu button (three vertical dots) by Right-click and Inspect on it. You will find the aria-label text in your language. Replace “Action menu” with the text in '#primary button[aria-label="Action menu"]'
• Replace “Watch later” with the text in your language in span[contains(text(),"Watch later")

I tried the script in French language by replacing:

• “Action menu” with “Menu d\’actions” – Remember to add a slash (\) before a single quote to escape it.
• “Watch later” with “À regarder plus tard”

The script becomes:

setInterval(function() {
	document.querySelector('#contents button[aria-label="Menu d\'actions"]').click();
	var things = document.evaluate('//span[contains(text(),"À regarder plus tard")]',document,null,XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,null);
		for (var i = 0; i < things.snapshotLength; i++) {
		    things.snapshotItem(i).click();
		}		
}, 1000);

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