Remove Watched Videos from Youtube Watch Later playlist

Currently, most Youtube users are unable to remove watched videos from their Watch Later playlist using the 'Remove Watched Videos' button. This becomes a problem once users reach the maximum playlist size of 5000 videos and would otherwise have to manually remove videos from their playlist.

This simple console script will remove all fully watched videos from Watch Later playlist, bypassing the 502 error by removing each video individually.

1. Go to your Watch Later playlist
2. Open Developer Console pressing F12 or CTRL + SHIFT + I
3. Paste the following code in the console and press ENTER:

Remove fully watched videos

setInterval(function () {
  try {
    watchedVideo = document.querySelector(`ytd-thumbnail-overlay-resume-playback-renderer > div.style-scope[style="width: 100%;"]`).closest('#content');
    watchedVideoMenu = watchedVideo.nextElementSibling;
    watchedVideoMenu.querySelector('#primary button[aria-label="Action menu"]').click();
    var things = document.evaluate(
      '//span[contains(text(),"Remove from")]',
      document,
      null,
      XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
      null
    );
    for (var i = 0; i < things.snapshotLength; i++) {
      things.snapshotItem(i).click();
    }
    console.log("Watched video removed");
  }
  catch(err) {
    if(err.constructor = TypeError){
      console.log("No watched videos loaded on page, scrolling down to load more videos.");
    }
    else{
      console.log(`Error: ${err}`);
    }
  }
  hideActionMenu = document.querySelector('body').click();
  window.scrollBy(0, window.innerHeight);
}, 2000);

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Remove partially watched videos

If you would also like to remove partially watched videos from the Watch Later playlist, you can use the following script (does not check for width: 100% on the 'resume-pĺayback' progress bar):

setInterval(function () {
  try {
    watchedVideo = document.querySelector(`ytd-thumbnail-overlay-resume-playback-renderer`).closest('#content');
    watchedVideoMenu = watchedVideo.nextElementSibling;
    watchedVideoMenu.querySelector('#primary button[aria-label="Action menu"]').click();
    var things = document.evaluate(
      '//span[contains(text(),"Remove from")]',
      document,
      null,
      XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
      null
    );
    for (var i = 0; i < things.snapshotLength; i++) {
      things.snapshotItem(i).click();
    }
    console.log("Watched video removed");
  }
  catch(err) {
    if(err.constructor = TypeError){
      console.log("No watched videos loaded on page, scrolling down to load more videos.");
    }
    else{
      console.log(`Error: ${err}`);
    }
  }
  hideActionMenu = document.querySelector('body').click();
  window.scrollBy(0, window.innerHeight);
}, 2000);

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Remove all videos in Watch Later

setInterval(function () {
  try {
    document.querySelector('#primary button[aria-label="Action menu"]').click();
    var things = document.evaluate(
      '//span[contains(text(),"Remove from")]',
      document,
      null,
      XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
      null
    );
    for (var i = 0; i < things.snapshotLength; i++) {
      things.snapshotItem(i).click();
    }
    console.log("Watched video removed");
  }
  catch(err) {
    if(err.constructor = TypeError){
      console.log("No watched videos loaded on page, scrolling down to load more videos.");
    }
    else{
      console.log(`Error: ${err}`);
    }
  }
  hideActionMenu = document.querySelector('body').click();
  window.scrollBy(0, window.innerHeight);
}, 2000);