A simple Google Chrome extension to disable autoplay for videos from your YouTube Watch Later playlist.

YouTube Watch Later Playlist URLs with the Watch Later parameter (all case variations: list=WL, list=wl, list=Wl, or list=wL) in the form

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXXXXXXX&index=123&list=WL

will attempt to be rewritten as

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXXXXXXX

to prevent YouTube's autoplay from being triggered.

Why did you do this?

• I love YouTube, and I hate autoplay
• I wanted to make a minimalist Google Chrome extension

I usually open videos in a new tab from my Watch Later playlist, which automatically has the list=WL querystring parameter. I also don't usually watch videos in the order I added them to my Watch Later playlist. Instead of trying to hack YouTube's massive amounts of JavaScript, this extension does exactly what I need.

Publishing notes

• In Chrome, load unpacked extension
• Test it
• Zip everything in this directory except test and .git
• Upload to the Chrome Web Store developer dashboard
• TODO: write process for signing a .crx using the .pem, it was failing for some unknown error last time I tried

License

MIT