One-liner to open the most recent video in your YouTube watch history

yt-over-here.sh

# This is for macOS, and requires that you have yt-dlp and Chrome installed.
# yt-dlp gains easy access to your youtube profile by borrowing cookies from
# Chrome, so you'll need to have logged into youtube with Chrome. The yt-dlp
# command will return the URL to the video at the top of your history, which
# can then be opened using your tool of choice - in this case, I pass it to
# 'open' to use the default browser.

# I use this primarily when I am (or was) watching a YT video on my
# Internet telephone, but then I want to pick it up on the mac.
# This technique is faster for me than anything done from the phone, even if
# I'm actively using the phone at the time.

# Pro tip: Try to gracefully stop playback on Youtube, otherwise your play
# position bookmark might be a bit behind.

open $(yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome --playlist-items 1 \
  --flat-playlist --get-url https://youtube.com/feed/history)