AI 产品解读Track and display changes in YouTube playlists
Users cannot easily track when videos are added to or removed from YouTube playlists, and cannot investigate deleted videos. This extension solves that by maintaining a history of playlist changes.
User installs extension and signs in with Google account. Extension monitors YouTube playlists the user specifies. When videos are added to or removed from tracked playlists, the extension records the change with video details and thumbnails. History is stored in the user's Google Drive. Users can view change stories via the popup or a linked SPA page.
Keeps track of changes in YouTube playlists (saves playlist history)Subscribes to specific playlists instead of whole channelsInvestigates deleted videos from playlistsShows max quality video thumbnailsReserves thumbnails of deleted videosStores history data in Google Drive for cross-device access
- 目标用户
- YouTube users who follow playlists and want to track changes / Content creators monitoring their playlists / Users who want to see what videos were removed from playlists they follow
- The extension bundles a large SPA (main.314ef8e67106adf06ff4.js at 875KB) which is minified and difficult to fully analyze for all features
- Cannot verify if the website playlistshistory.com offers paid tiers that might affect the extension
- API quota limits shown are Google API limits, not extension-paid features, but the distinction should be clear to users
付费分析未识别到付费功能
No evidence of paid features, subscription plans, or payment processing in the extension code. The extension uses Google Drive API and YouTube Data API which have free tiers with quota limits (quota exceeded message shown in popup/popup.html line 16), but these are API usage limits, not paid features of the extension itself. No references to Stripe, PayPal, subscription management, upgrade prompts, or premium feature gating were found in the source code.
- 置信度
- 90
- 支付平台
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- 来源
- AI / 高
- 需要登录
- 是
- 登录理由
- The extension requires Google OAuth2 login to function. The popup UI explicitly shows a 'Sign in with Google' button (popup/popup.html lines 66-73) and displays 'You need to sign in' message when not authenticated (popup/popup.html line 63). The manifest declares 'identity' permission and oauth2 client_id (manifest.json lines 15, 27-30). The extension uses Google Drive API to store playlist history and YouTube Data API to fetch playlist data, both requiring authenticated Google accounts. Without login, the core functionality of tracking playlist changes cannot operate.
The idea is great, but I don’t understand why it needs login to fetch videos, many extensions, such as watchmarker for youtube, which is a similar idea but for videos on youtube history, can fetch all videos automatically without any authorization. Would it be possible to not need login?
The authorization is busted. It wont stay logged in.
It seems to work, but every couple of minutes it requires re-authorization.
3 stars is criminal, the extension works exactly as advertised. It just might take a bit for it to initially load all your playlists (especially if you're like me, with tens of playlists containing thousands of videos), but afterwards it works fine. And of course, it can take a minute or two to update, but that's because of the YouTube API, not the extension. Of course, it can't get the history before the extension was added, since that kind of information isn't available. But, for videos that are on the playlist, the API *can* access the date it was most recently added. Perhaps the extension could populate the history with that upon first launch? It might not be the full history, but it's the best that could be done.
It doesn't even work
It's a good extension and an amazing idea. I'm guessing it has a limit on how far it can go back because the extension states that I haven't edited my playlists ever when in reality I used too all the time but that was 3 years ago. Overall good extension just wish it went back further.
Works perfectly, and comes with an incredible added bonus, which probably wasn't intended by the creator but is worth installing this extension all by itself. Youtube hides videos which have been deleted and are no longer accessible, which can be a problem if you don't remember what those videos were. This extension can be used to recover the names and thumbnails of those videos by moving all the files to a new playlist and checking the backup against the original playlist. Just for that alone this would get five stars, even if the extension didn't also work as advertised.
works great, does exactly what it says it does. helps a ton when i manage my playlists
I cannot for the life of me get this to work or do anything for that matter. I dont think it does at all.
Simple, easy, does exactly what it says it does, and has definitely helped me from trying to dig around for songs that go removed or deleted from my music playlists!