From 7ea49fe3984c5b3c8afe09ec801483604b9f4cbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AudricV <74829229+AudricV@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 23:44:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [YouTube] Support playlists as URL navigation endpoints

---
 .../services/youtube/YoutubeParsingHelper.java       | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeParsingHelper.java b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeParsingHelper.java
index bd7b5c26b..0818df9f5 100644
--- a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeParsingHelper.java
+++ b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeParsingHelper.java
@@ -830,9 +830,15 @@ public final class YoutubeParsingHelper {
             final String canonicalBaseUrl = browseEndpoint.getString("canonicalBaseUrl");
             final String browseId = browseEndpoint.getString("browseId");
 
-            // All channel ids are prefixed with UC
-            if (browseId != null && browseId.startsWith("UC")) {
-                return "https://www.youtube.com/channel/" + browseId;
+            if (browseId != null) {
+                if (browseId.startsWith("UC")) {
+                    // All channel IDs are prefixed with UC
+                    return "https://www.youtube.com/channel/" + browseId;
+                } else if (browseId.startsWith("VL")) {
+                    // All playlist IDs are prefixed with VL, which needs to be removed from the
+                    // playlist ID
+                    return "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=" + browseId.substring(2);
+                }
             }
 
             if (!isNullOrEmpty(canonicalBaseUrl)) {