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Some youtube playlists not showing under Playlists tab #13888

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Affected version

0.29.1

Steps to reproduce the bug

  1. Open Playlists tab on @MattMcMuscles in Newpipe
  2. Compare playlists on page to desktop version of the page at https://www.youtube.com/@MattMcMuscles/playlists
  3. Notice that four playlists are missing on Newpipe: "The Worst Fighting Game", "What Happened?", "The Mediocre Spider-Matt", and "Video Game Quicklooks"

For the playlists that appear in Newpipe, the URLs when mousing over the icon on desktop look like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNLGIGmrXVY&list=PLJdyZRNyk92r-Xzdn9xaH7OxZVX-ZLlzX
While the ones that don't show up in Newpipe have URLs when mousing over the icon that look like
https://www.youtube.com/show/VLPLJdyZRNyk92qMaZ3Jisq0g0sJUyLEc_H_?sbp=Kgs0OGRsZ1lHN3kzUUAB

Both have similar-looking URLs when you mouse over/click the "View full playlist" link below the icon on desktop browser:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdyZRNyk92r-Xzdn9xaH7OxZVX-ZLlzX
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdyZRNyk92qMaZ3Jisq0g0sJUyLEc_H_

I'm speculating that the issue is a playlist page parsing error? If memory serves, the playlists showed up last week or so, meaning Youtube changed something that broke the parser recently.

Expected behavior

I expected those four playlists to show up alongside the others on the Playlists tab.

Actual behavior

The four playlists listed above are absent from the Playlists tab.

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 17

Affected device model

Google Pixel 8a

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    on Oct 7, 2026
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