YouTube Playlist Length

Lakshy Gupta
2 min readNov 20, 2022

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A chrome extension that calculates how long it will take to watch a whole playlist on YouTube.

Features included in this chrome extension :

  1. Determine the duration based on the playback speed at which you are most comfortable watching the videos.
  2. Skip already watched videos and estimate the time to complete the remaining videos. eg: 1–8.

This will help you in getting a personalized estimate of total time required for watching complete playlist on YouTube.

For more info visit : https://ytplaylist-len.netlify.app/

How to use ?

  • Add the chrome extension to chrome and pin it.
  • To calculate normal duration of any playlist on YouTube, simply open the extension and click on Analyze now.
  • You can select the playback speed of the videos on which you prefer to watch and calculation of duration will be done accordingly.
  • Consider you have watched some videos, now you want to calculate how much time is left to complete the playlist. Just input the space separated video numbers or range of video number StartVideo-EndVideo and these videos will be excluded from the calculation of total duration. E.g.: 1–10 15 17 -> This will skip all videos from 1 to 10 and 15th, 17th video in the playlist.
Demonstration

Chrome extension link: Click Here (chrome web store)

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Lakshy Gupta

Backend Developer | Java | Javascript | CS Core Concepts