this project takes the code from your watchlater playist (or other playlist) and exports it into an easily-readable CSV file with the video titles and the links to the videos.

at this time, there are some manual steps in this process. i am looking into minimizing these and any feedback would be greatly appreciated. near as i can tell, the main roadblock at automating the currently-manual steps is that youtube playlists only load the first 100 videos at a time and one needs to scroll down on the page to get additional (batches of 100) videos to load.

1. navigate to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL or the preferred playlist of your choice
2. if the playlist is more than 100 items, scroll down until all items are loaded
3. right-click on the page and choose "inspect" (instructions are for Chrome, other browsers will vary)
4. at the top of the html, find the <html... tag and right-click on it (or, to copy less code, find the <div id="contents"... tag and right-click on it)
5. select Copy > Copy Element
6. open a text editor and paste this in there. save the file in a place you can easily find it.
7. execute the program. you will be prompted for the path/filename of the text file and a filename for the output .csv file.

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