How to Watch an Entire YouTube Playlist in VLC

Last Updated: September 12, 2021

Ever wanted to watch that entire playlist consisting of appealing videos outside of your browser? If you wanted to play a single video , all you needed to do was to click "Media" , click "Open Network Stream" , enter video URL and hit "Play". But if you paste in a playlist URL, all the player will do is play the first video. Here comes to rescue the Playlist Parser add on for VLC.

Steps

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Ensure that VLC is up-to-date.^{[1]
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Download the YouTube Playlist Parser add-on for VLC.
- Once you hit the "Download" button, you will be redirected to a text file. Simply right click and click on "Save As".
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When you save the file, ensure that you save it with the extension ".lua". Now move that saved file to a proper folder depending on your OS :^{[2]
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- Windows : %ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\
- Linux : /usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/
- Mac OS X : /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/playlist/
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Find your desired YouTube playlist and copy its URL.^{[3]
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- Paste the URL in the "Open Network Window".^{[4]
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- The first video will start playing and all the others will queue up.