Remove video shorts from YT Watch History

delete-watch-history-shorts.console.js

// orig: https://gist.github.com/miketromba/334282421c4784d7d9a191ca25095c09

// Paste the script into your console on this page: https://myactivity.google.com/product/youtube

const ENABLED = true;
const MIN_DURATION_MS = 1000 * 60 * 1.5; // 1:30 mins
const CHECK_FOR_CONFIRM_INTERVAL = 2000;
let CYCLE_INTERVAL = 1800; // Amount of time in MS to wait between deletion (more likely to fail with a small number)
let wantCycling = true;
const VERY_LONG_DURATION = MIN_DURATION_MS * 10;

const alreadyRemoved = [];

const durationString= (vidElement) => {
        const elt = vidElement.querySelector('[aria-label="Video duration"]'),
              tc = elt && elt.textContent;
        return tc && tc.trim();
      };

const duration = (vidElement) => {
        const dString = durationString(vidElement);
        if ( ! dString) {
          // unknown, something else is wrong
          return VERY_LONG_DURATION;
        }
        if(dString.split(':').length > 2) { // The video is > 1hr long
          return VERY_LONG_DURATION;
        }
        // less than an hour
        let [mins, secs] = dString.split(':');
        if ( ! mins || !secs){
          return VERY_LONG_DURATION;
        }
        [mins, secs] = [mins, secs].map(stringNum => parseInt(stringNum, 10));
          const durationMS = (mins * 60 * 1000) + (secs * 1000);
        return durationMS;
      };

const getIdentifiers = (videoElement) =>
[...videoElement.getElementsByTagName('a')].map(anchor => anchor.textContent.trim());

const vidUniquifier = (videoName, channelName) => `${videoName}|${channelName}`;
const isPreviouslyRemoved = (videoElement) => {
        const [videoName, channelName] = getIdentifiers(videoElement);
        return alreadyRemoved.includes(vidUniquifier(videoName, channelName));
      };

const isShort = (videoElement) => {
    try {
      return duration(videoElement) < MIN_DURATION_MS;
    } catch(e){
      console.log(`Exception while examining video: ${e}`);
      return false;
    }
}


async function deleteNext() {

  // Extract next item from page
  const nextItem = await getNextItem();

  if (nextItem) {
    // Find name and author of video & log it to console

    try {
      const [videoName, channelName] = getIdentifiers(nextItem);
      const dString = durationString(nextItem);
      console.log(`deleteNext(): Will delete: ${videoName} by ${channelName} (${dString})...`);
      // Find the next menu button for the item & click it
      if (ENABLED) {
        const deleteButton = nextItem.getElementsByTagName('button')[0];
        console.log(`deleteNext: DELETE: click...`);
        deleteButton.click();
        alreadyRemoved.push(vidUniquifier(videoName, channelName));
      }
      else {
        console.log(`deleteNext: DELETE: NOT CLICKing...`);
      }
    } catch(e){
      console.log(`deleteNext(): while examining, exc: ${e}`);
    }
  }
  else {
    console.log(`deleteNext(): no item found.`);
  }

  if (wantCycling) {
    // Wait [DELETE_INTERVAL] ms
    setTimeout(() => {

      // For the FIRST video, the YT UI pops up a dialog that the user must click through,
      // to confirm the delete.  Subsequent videos do not require this.

      // Get the next delete button on the page & click it
      const nextMenu = nextItem.querySelector('[aria-label="Activity options menu"]');
      if (nextMenu) {
        const nextDeleteButton = nextMenu.querySelector('[aria-label="Delete activity item"]');
        if ( nextDeleteButton) {
          nextDeleteButton.click();
        }
        setTimeout(deleteNext, CYCLE_INTERVAL);
      }
      else {
        // wait a bit, and look again
        setTimeout(deleteNext, CYCLE_INTERVAL - CHECK_FOR_CONFIRM_INTERVAL);
      }

    }, CHECK_FOR_CONFIRM_INTERVAL);
  }
}

function getNextItem() {
   const items = document.querySelectorAll('div[role="listitem"]');
   console.log(`Found ${items.length} candidate items...`);
   const nextItemToDelete = Array.from(items).find((v) => isShort(v) && !isPreviouslyRemoved(v));
   return nextItemToDelete; // possibly null
}

// This will start up the script
deleteNext()