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Calculate Youtube playlist total duration
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(() => { | |
const formatTime = (seconds) => { | |
const units = { | |
days: Math.floor(seconds / 60 / 60 / 24), | |
hours: Math.floor(seconds / 60 / 60 % 24), | |
minutes: Math.floor(seconds / 60 % 60), | |
seconds: seconds % 60 | |
} | |
// remove empty units, singularize if necessary, and return a string | |
return Object.entries(units).filter(([unit, value]) => value !== 0) | |
.map(([unit, value]) => `${value} ${value === 1 ? unit.slice(0, -1) : unit}`) | |
.reduce((totalTime, x) => totalTime + ', ' + x) | |
} | |
const timestamps = [...document.querySelectorAll('span.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer')] | |
.map(x => x.innerText.trim()) | |
.map(x => { | |
const [min, sec] = x.split(':') | |
return min * 60 + sec * 1 | |
}) | |
const totalTime = formatTime( | |
timestamps.reduce((totalSeconds, x) => totalSeconds + x) | |
) | |
console.log('%c Playlist total: %s', 'font-size: 2.5em; color: cyan', totalTime) | |
})() |
Honestly, I probably wouldn't iterate an object in this way in a production application but for this case I thought it was interesting to be able to slice off the 's' to make the unit singular.
Also I will admit it doesn't look as hacky in python, which is where I took the code for the formatTime function
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Navigate to a youtube playlist and paste into the Javascript console (⌥ ⌘ J on macOS)
You don't need to be logged in, so if the console makes you nervous, just open it in an incognito window.