YouTube search is useful for discovery, but getting one clean chronological list of matching videos is still awkward. So I built Newest for YouTube, a small open-source Chrome extension that requests public results through the YouTube Data API v3 with type=video and order=date.
What it does
- Reads the query from a YouTube search-results page
- Requests up to 50 matching public videos ordered newest first
- Renders them as familiar YouTube-style result cards
- Keeps the user-provided API key in local Chrome extension storage
- Uses no backend, analytics, or developer-operated data collection
Running it
Clone the repository, load the folder as an unpacked extension from chrome://extensions, enable YouTube Data API v3 in your own Google Cloud project, and save your API key from the extension popup.
It is deliberately a bring-your-own-key, local-first utility rather than a hosted service. YouTube API quota limits still apply.
The code is MIT licensed and available here:
View Newest for YouTube on GitHub
This is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google or YouTube.
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