YouTube View Filter 🎯
Hides YouTube videos below a configurable view count threshold.
YouTube recently started showing lots of low-quality, AI-generated videos with very few views on the homepage. This script filters them out.
Version: 1.0.0
Last Tested: October 31, 2025
Status: ✅ Working
Language Support: 🇺🇸 English only (other languages coming soon)
✨ Features
- Configurable view threshold - Set your minimum view count (default: 1000)
- Channel whitelist - Never filter videos from your favorite creators
- Works across YouTube - Filters on home page, search results, and recommendations
- Real-time filtering - Automatically processes new videos as they load
- Debug logging - Optional console logging to see what's being filtered
- Performance optimized - Efficient DOM monitoring and processing
⚙️ Configuration
Edit the script in your userscript manager to customize these settings:
const CONFIG = {
viewThreshold: 1000, // Minimum view count (videos below this are hidden)
enableLogging: true, // Show debug info in console (true/false)
whitelistedChannels: [
// Channels that should never be filtered
// Add channel names here
// Example: "PewDiePie", "MrBeast", "Kurzgesagt"
],
};
Configuration Examples
Only show videos with 10K+ views:
viewThreshold: 10000,
Whitelist your favorite channels:
whitelistedChannels: [
"Veritasium",
"3Blue1Brown",
"Kurzgesagt",
],
Disable logging:
enableLogging: false,
🎬 How It Works
Technical Overview:
- Monitors the DOM - Uses
MutationObserver to watch for new video elements added to the page
- Targets video containers - Looks for specific YouTube elements:
ytd-rich-item-renderer, ytd-video-renderer, etc.
- Extracts view count - Searches
aria-label attributes for view count data (e.g., "Video Title - 70K views - Channel")
- Parses with regex - Uses pattern matching to extract numbers like "70K", "1.2M", "169 watching" from aria-labels
- Compares to threshold - If view count < your configured threshold, marks video for removal
- Checks whitelist - Skips filtering if channel is in your whitelist
- Hides filtered videos - Sets
display: none on video elements that don't meet criteria
- Runs on navigation - Re-processes videos when you navigate to new YouTube pages (it's a Single Page App)
Result: Low-view videos disappear from your feed in real-time as the page loads.
📝 Console Logging
When enableLogging is enabled, you'll see:
✅ Loaded - Script initialized successfully🔍 Processing - Each video being checked🗑️ Removed - Videos that were filtered (title, channel, view count)ℹ️ Info - General status messages⚠️ Warnings - Potential issues
📄 License
MIT License - See LICENSE for details
🤝 Contributing
Found a bug or have a suggestion? Please open an issue!
Note: This script modifies your YouTube browsing experience. Videos are hidden from view but not permanently deleted.
