It turns out that its quite popular and you happen to visit and use it quite often. Instead of just searching and playing here are some top Youtube URL tricks that you should know about:
View high quality videos
Youtube gives you the option to switch to high quality videos for some of the videos, however you can check if a video is available in high quality format by appending ‘&fmt=18′(stereo, 480 x 270 resolution) or ‘&fmt=22′(stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution) for even higher quality.
Embed Higher Quality Videos
While the above trick works for playback, if however you want to embed hig quality videos you need to append “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″ and “&ap=%2526fmt%3D22″ to the embed url.
Cut the chase and link to the interesting part
Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck. All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL.
Hide the search box
The search box appears when you hover over an embedded video. To hide the search box add ‘&showsearch=0′ to the embed url.
Embed only a part of Video
Just append ‘&start=30′ to skip first 30s of the video. In general you can modify the value after start= to the number of seconds you want to skip the video for.
Autoplay an embedded video
Normally when you embed a Youtube video and load the page, the player is loaded and it sits there waiting for you to hit the play button. You can make the video play automatically by adding ‘&autoplay=1′ to the url part of the embed code.
Loop an embedded video
Append ‘&loop=1′ to make the video start again without user intervention after it reaches the end.
Disable Related Videos
Publishing your content in the form of Youtube video? Don’t want people to see other people’s content that may be related but may as well be in competition to you? Just add ‘&rel=0′ to the end of the url part of the embed code and you just turned off the related video suggestions!
Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering
Some videos are only available in certain parts of the world. Your IP Address is used to determine your location and then allow or deny access to the video. Change the url from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<somecode> to http://www.youtube.com/v/<somecode>
Download Video
Although not inherently a youtube trick but useful all the same for downloading videos. Just change youtube to kickyoutube in the url of the video and it will take you to kickyoutube.com with all the options for downloading the video you were watching.
To download only music from YouTube video
Add listento between "www." and "YouTube".
For example www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRYfwqEvwDU will change to www.listentoyoutube.com/watch?v=uRYfwqEvwDU
To repeat a YouTube video
Add repeat between "www." and "YouTube"
For example to repeat a video of url www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRYfwqEvwDU will be changed to www.repeatyoutube.com/watch?v=uRYfwqEvwDU
Watch 18+ Videos On YouTube Without Signing In
Although YouTube allow you, to browse video without login into your account. But when it comes to video flagged with adult content, you are required to login to your account to make sure you are 18+
Well you don't have to take the risk of login to your account, just add nsfw (not suitable for work) between www. and YouTube and make sure to remove the httpspart from the url.
For example your video has a url this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Qx0gqG6OA change this to www.nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=N9Qx0gqG6OA
To convert Youtube video into gif
Add gif between "www." and "YouTube"
For example to get a gif from this video url www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRYfwqEvwDU will be changed to www.gifyoutube.com/watch?v=uRYfwqEvwDU
To get the associated thumbnail from a video
Add the video id to this url.
For example to get the thumbnail to this video of url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utTXASpW0aA it will be changed to http://img.youtube.com/vi/utTXASpW0aA/maxresdefault.jpg
Skip the video to interesting part
Add #t=XXmXXs to the end of the video url. (X represents time in minutes and time is seconds respectively)
For example to see the interseting part of the video at 2 minutes and 3 seconds this video of url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsYvxKTw4m8 it will be changed to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsYvxKTw4m8#t=2m3s
Navigate using keyboard shortcuts
You can press any number (between 0 to 9) on your keyboard and it will take you to that % length of the video. So if the video you are watching is 10 min long, by pressing "2" your video will start from 2 minutes. Similarly if you press 5 it will start video from 50% of its duration ie. 5 min.
Keyboard shortcuts
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Output
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Space button
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pause/unpause video
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Right arrow key
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Fast forward video by 10%
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Left arrow key
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Reverse by 10%
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Up arrow key
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Increase volume
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Down arrow key
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Decrease volume
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Home key
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Go to beginning of video
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End key
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Go to last seconds of video
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Numeric 1, 2 key
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jump to 10%, jumps to 20% and so on.
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F
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Full Screen
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Esc
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Escape full screen
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j & k
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jump video backwards & forwards
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Play YouTube video as you search
Created by Jake Becker, a stanford student as a part of a bet with his roommate. Although he lost the bet to build real-time YouTube search in less than an hour (it took him 3 hours), he still manages to get instant job offer from YouTube CEO.
Checkout Instant YouTube search from here.
Copy others YouTube Playlist to your
Playlists are a really good way to put together your own uninterrupted viewing. I like to make playlist of my favourite songs on different genre so, that I don't have waste time clicking on each video.
Sometimes you see cool playlist on YouTube created by others archiving your favorite movies shows, music or educational tutorial. It's always a good idea to copy this playlist to yours, so that you don't have to worry about losing it. Instead of adding video one by one you this web tool by Amit Agarwal to copy paste the entire playlist.
SEARCH PARTICULAR PLAYLIST OR OFFICIAL CHANNEL IN YOUTUBE
If you are looking for a specific channel then just add a word channel or partners separated by comma in the end .
Example-
GET SEARCH RESULT IN HD ONLY
Most of the YouTube are uploaded in HD , if you like to watch video only in high quality then add the HD keyword in the end of your search term separated by comma.
FIND LENGTHY OR SHORT VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE
Some of the videos are short while others are not. Let say you are only interested in watching videos over 20 min then use short keyword separated by comma.
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