/ clis / youtube / watch-later.js
watch-later.js
 1  /**
 2   * YouTube watch-later — the user's Watch Later queue.
 3   * Navigates to /playlist?list=WL and reads ytInitialData directly.
 4   */
 5  import { cli, Strategy } from '@jackwener/opencli/registry';
 6  import { FETCH_BROWSE_FN, extractPlaylistVideos } from './utils.js';
 7  import { CommandExecutionError, EmptyResultError } from '@jackwener/opencli/errors';
 8  
 9  cli({
10      site: 'youtube',
11      name: 'watch-later',
12      description: 'Get your YouTube Watch Later queue',
13      domain: 'www.youtube.com',
14      strategy: Strategy.COOKIE,
15      args: [
16          { name: 'limit', type: 'int', default: 50, help: 'Max videos to return (default 50, max 200)' },
17      ],
18      columns: ['rank', 'title', 'channel', 'duration', 'views', 'published', 'url'],
19      func: async (page, kwargs) => {
20          const limit = Math.min(kwargs.limit || 50, 200);
21          await page.goto('https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL');
22          await page.wait(3);
23          const data = await page.evaluate(`
24        (async () => {
25          const d = window.ytInitialData;
26          if (!d) return { error: 'YouTube data not found — are you logged in?' };
27  
28          const limit = ${limit};
29          const cfg = window.ytcfg?.data_ || {};
30          const apiKey = cfg.INNERTUBE_API_KEY;
31          const context = cfg.INNERTUBE_CONTEXT;
32  
33          const header = d.header?.playlistHeaderRenderer;
34          const title = header?.title?.simpleText || 'Watch Later';
35          const stats = (header?.stats || [])
36            .map(s => s.runs?.map(r => r.text)?.join('') || s.simpleText || '')
37            .filter(Boolean);
38  
39          const tabs = d.contents?.twoColumnBrowseResultsRenderer?.tabs || [];
40          let listContents = tabs[0]?.tabRenderer?.content?.sectionListRenderer?.contents?.[0]?.itemSectionRenderer?.contents?.[0]?.playlistVideoListRenderer?.contents || [];
41  
42          ${FETCH_BROWSE_FN}
43  
44          const extractVideos = ${extractPlaylistVideos.toString()};
45  
46          let videos = extractVideos(listContents);
47  
48          let contItem = listContents[listContents.length - 1];
49          while (videos.length < limit && contItem?.continuationItemRenderer && apiKey && context) {
50            const token = contItem.continuationItemRenderer?.continuationEndpoint?.continuationCommand?.token;
51            if (!token) break;
52            const contData = await fetchBrowse(apiKey, { context, continuation: token });
53            if (contData.error) break;
54            const newItems = contData.onResponseReceivedActions?.[0]?.appendContinuationItemsAction?.continuationItems || [];
55            if (!newItems.length) break;
56            videos = videos.concat(extractVideos(newItems));
57            contItem = newItems[newItems.length - 1];
58          }
59  
60          return { title, stats, videos: videos.slice(0, limit) };
61        })()
62      `);
63          if (!data || typeof data !== 'object') {
64              throw new CommandExecutionError('Failed to fetch Watch Later — make sure you are logged into YouTube');
65          }
66          if (data.error) {
67              throw new CommandExecutionError(String(data.error));
68          }
69          if (!data.videos?.length) {
70              throw new EmptyResultError('youtube watch-later');
71          }
72          const statsStr = (data.stats || []).join(' | ');
73          process.stderr.write(`${data.title}  ${statsStr}\n`);
74          return data.videos;
75      },
76  });