Youtube history script

script.js

// paste this into the console when looking at your youtube history page and you'll get a somewhat long stringified json out
// youtube deprecated the history API altogether, so now we get to dig through EICH TEE EMMMERGHERD ELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
var container_tag = "yt-lockup-content";
var user_data_tag = "yt-lockup-byline";

var containers = document.getElementsByClassName(container_tag);


function get_data_from_container(container) {
    var data = {};
    data.title = container.getElementsByTagName('h3')[0].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].title;
    data.url = container.getElementsByTagName('h3')[0].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].href;
    data.user = container.getElementsByClassName(user_data_tag)[0].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].href;
    return data;
}

var total = 0;
var videos = [];
Array.from(containers).forEach( function (container) {
    total += 1;
    try{
        videos.push(get_data_from_container(container))
    } catch (e){};
} );

console.log("Successfuly got " + videos.length.toString() + " out of " + total.toString());
JSON.stringify(videos);