YouTube
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Get videos from the currently opened YouTube history page

This Playbook will extract videos from the currently opened YouTube history page.

This is a Bardeen playbook. It's a pre-built automation template you can run in one-click to perform a repetitive task. Get started with our free Chrome extension.

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How does this automation work?

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Bardeen's "Get videos from the currently opened YouTube history page" playbook is a powerful tool that leverages data extraction to enhance your research and data sourcing capabilities. Particularly useful for content creators and marketers, this workflow automates the process of gathering video information from your YouTube history, which can inform your content strategy and help you understand viewing trends without manual effort.

Here's how this workflow retrieves video data from your YouTube history:

  • Step 1: Extract YouTube History - The Scraper is employed to collect data from your currently opened YouTube history page. You can specify the maximum number of video entries you want to extract, ensuring that you get exactly the amount of data you need.
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How to run the playbook

Sorting through your YouTube watch history to find specific videos or track topics can quickly become overwhelming, especially when it's filled with content you didn’t save to playlists. This Playbook makes it easy by automatically extracting video details from your open YouTube history page, capturing essentials like titles, URLs, and watch dates all in one go.

Perfect for content creators revisiting sources or researchers tracking past tutorials, this automation lets you gather and organize your history with minimal effort. Instead of scrolling endlessly or missing key content, you’ll have a clear, organized list at your fingertips, ready to search, review, or even analyze.

With this tool, keeping track of your YouTube history is simplified, saving time and making your watch habits easy to reference.

Let’s set it up!

Step 1: Pin the playbook

You will be redirected to install the browser extension when you run it for the first time. 

Click the “Pin it” button at the top of this page to get this automation saved to your Playbooks, if you already have the Bardeen extension installed.

To use the Playbook, navigate to a YouTube history page.

Step 2: Run the playbook to get videos from the currently opened YouTube history page

To get videos from YouTube history page, activate Bardeen (or hit Option + B on Mac or ALT + B on PC on your keyboard) and click to “run the playbook”.

The playbook will then show you the result on the screen. It will give you information like title, video link, author, author link, views, description, preview image and more.

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Get videos from the currently opened YouTube history page
Get videos from the currently opened YouTube history page
Get videos from the currently opened YouTube history page
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FAQs

Bardeen - Playbook / Autobooks: Is it possible to create a Playbook that scrapes data from a website and sends it as an email attachment?

You can create a Bardeen Playbook to scrape data from a website and then send that data as an email attachment.

Youtube: Can I download a Youtube video to my computer using Bardeen?

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Google Sheets: What is the best way to export data to Google Sheets?

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Cases like this require you to scrape the links to the sections and use the background scraper to get details from every section.

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