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For example, I want to play all 58 videos uploaded by a single user.

Obviously I could create a playlist, add each video to it, then play the entire playlist, but is there a simpler way?

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  • Currently there seems to be no way to do this. Besides creating the playlist yourself.
    – Rainb
    Dec 26, 2020 at 12:43
  • I created a bookmarklet that seems to work pretty universally in the current year, whether the user has a public 'Uploads' playlist on their page or not, but Stack Exchange's awesome preventative measures from allowing people to answer questions makes it impossible for me to post it, even after logging back in to my account from like 2014. Nice.
    – zulc22
    Jun 6, 2022 at 5:16

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URL hacking for the rescue! You can append &list=UL to the end of a video URL from that user.

So, if you have:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zucBfXpCA6s

it should become:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zucBfXpCA6s&list=UL

                                           ^ right here

You could also add something like this to your bookmark and simply click on it:

javascript:window.location+='&list=UL'

Select it then drag and drop it on your bookmarks. (how?)

Now, there is an issue!

It's got a weird behaviour as dear @burtek brought to my attention on the comments.

In my instance here, with Valentina Lisitsa, she got 272 videos right now, but it won't ever show more than 99 on the list. And it seems like it's ordered from oldest to newest, so if you want to play all videos you rather start with the user's first video. In her case, this is it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS_foc_NxI0&list=UL

From there you can leave it playing and it will play all her videos.

Seemed like the current video will always try to be in position #20 of the list, showing 19 previous ones and 79 next ones, but now I believe it's even more random than that.

Most users, however, do have an "uploads" section on their profile, and you can just click on "Play All" right there to get a generated playlist from newest to oldest, like @wisbucky pointed in another answer here:

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/82675/4616

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    And it includes only a few of the user's videos
    – burtek
    May 30, 2014 at 21:31
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    Sure. youtube.com/watch?v=UWMBsK6lV1k&list=UL. Also here's the screenshot: zapisz.net/images/757_yt.png. 153 filmy means 153 videos ;)
    – burtek
    May 30, 2014 at 23:20
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    How did you find out about the &list=UL bit?
    – confused00
    Dec 20, 2015 at 18:59
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    @confused00 that's my point. If you go right now to Valentina's channel and find Uploads you'll see there a Play All button. Back when I wrote this answer, that would lead to that list=UL. Now it's leading to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuFJ06wtcmM&list=UU6UbiyGEGkF5iuqKRsShCOg and I didn't dig more to know why it's this different now. Just trying to illustrate how I might have done it in that past. ;)
    – cregox
    Dec 21, 2015 at 3:50
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    It doesn't work anymore
    – Rainb
    Dec 26, 2020 at 12:28
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Much easier way now:

  1. Go to the user's Youtube home page (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/xyz/ ).

  2. Hover over the "Uploads" section. You will see a "Play all" button appear next to "Uploads".

  3. Click on "Play all" and it will generate a playlist with all the user's uploaded videos from newest to oldest. (I just wish there was an easy option to sort from oldest to newest)

Screenshot:

enter image description here

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  • I don't see a "Play All" button. Was this removed? Care to add a screenshot?
    – Yuck
    May 3, 2016 at 15:35
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    fwiw, in the new design there is a "play all" button on the /videos page, in the current design (the one seen in the screenshot), the channel in question needs to have the "recent uploads" playlist featured on their channel.
    – Leo Wattenberg
    Feb 18, 2017 at 16:01
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    It only plays about 12 videos.
    – Ken Sharp
    Jan 20, 2018 at 21:33
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    Tried this with Stephen Colbert - who has over 5000 videos. I wish this would work
    – slashdottir
    Nov 2, 2019 at 16:55
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    this doesn't work anymore, does it.
    – Rainb
    Dec 26, 2020 at 12:31
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It's subtle, and it's cheeky, but it can be done:

Given a particular channel URL:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9mPk8yIk1AUC8PDsUYFBaA

You can fiddle a little bit and:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9mPk8yIk1AUC8PDsUYFBaA

Note that you change channel/UC to playlist?list=UU.

$ echo "$URL" | sed 's/channel\/UC/playlist\?list=UU/'

You don't need to have a particular video.

The playlist can't be sorted, saved or manipulated in any useful way (at time of writing), but when you hit "Play all" or pick a video you can use the shuffle button 🔀 in the playlist.

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  • This works for me
    – Asme Just
    Dec 29, 2018 at 1:43
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    Almost worked on youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig But as soon as I hit Play All, it switches to a different UI and drops out of the playlist
    – slashdottir
    Nov 2, 2019 at 17:03
  • Works fine here.
    – Ken Sharp
    Nov 3, 2019 at 20:46
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    This is the only method on this page that worked for me in 2021
    – kuilin
    Nov 20, 2021 at 19:59
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    This method does work and gives you the Uploads playlist, even if it is hidden. However, you can't get the channel ID from the URL of the page, since there's like 3 or 4 different canonical URL types for channels which are preferred by the site over channel/UCxxx, so this doesn't always work.
    – zulc22
    Jun 6, 2022 at 5:37
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You could also use this site here: http://youtube.nestharion.de

It creates a playlist with all the videos from a user and plays them continually.

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  • At the moment, I need to opt out of the HTML5 trial to use this playlist generator.
    – Kevin Coulombe
    Jul 25, 2013 at 22:04
  • If like me you don't want to opt out of the HTML5 trial, just open another browser window, as this answer works for any non-logged-in user.
    – nic
    Sep 6, 2013 at 3:20
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    Is there a way to open the playlist on youtube, or save it to resume playing later?
    – rraallvv
    Apr 29, 2014 at 18:58
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    this site is dangerous now, my avast antivirus warns against it.
    – Santropedro
    Apr 5, 2018 at 21:18
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    doesn't work with Stephen Colbert
    – slashdottir
    Nov 2, 2019 at 16:57
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Little trick I found is to get a user's unique code/string from their profile page's source. Here's how to do it:

  • Go to their user page and right-click -> "view page source".
  • Search for "vnd" and copy the code that you find (It should start with "UC").
  • Open one of the user's videos. In the URL address, add the following to the end: "&list=" then paste the string you copied.
  • Final step is simply change the 2nd character of the code you pasted from a C to a U. Hit enter and the video should reload, and now it appears in a playlist of all the user's videos.

This seems to work pretty reliably, but sometimes does not get all of the user's videos.

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  • Is not necessary to check the source, just the link to the user in any of the videos should be enough.
    – Braiam
    May 20, 2015 at 11:07
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    Wow this one actually lets you play videos newest-to-oldest instead of the oldest-to-newest with &list=UL
    – Jakub Bochenski
    Oct 31, 2016 at 19:28
  • This is the only one that still works. Thank you. YouTube has made it hard lately to get the ^UC.* channel URL.
    – bewilderex63
    May 2, 2023 at 20:42
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2024 Update with explanation

I recently created a small userscript called YouTube Play All to add the now missing Play All button back to YouTube. Below I will explain how it works in detail so you may reproduce it without usage of the userscript.

This approach is based on this answer but modified to work with recent changes since the release of YouTube shorts. The issue in 2024 is the general lack of a Play All button in a channels videos tab. Without changes to YouTube, the only way to directly access a playlist with all videos is having the creator add it to their home tab. Unfortunately, not all YouTube channels have this playlist accessible.

Missing play all buttonManually added playlist by creator

The playlist for Uploads by <User> can easily be accessed through the channel ID. As example, I will use the channel Cathode Ray Dude [CRD] due to it both containing videos and shorts.

Inside the HTML body of a YouTube channel videos section, one can find the link[rel="canonical"] containing a full link to the channel with the ID:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXnNibvR_YIdyPs8PZIBoEw">

A very important note is this link element possibly being out of date when switching between multiple channels. YouTube will keep the old link with the ID of the previously visited channel, so a refresh of your page is recommended before extracting the ID.

The ID XnNibvR_YIdyPs8PZIBoEw can now be used to access a playlist by prepending UU and using it as the list GET parameter, for example in:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUXnNibvR_YIdyPs8PZIBoEw

This now shows the playlist "Uploads from Cathode Ray Dude [CRD]".

As of 2024, the UU playlist includes YouTube shorts, which might not be desired and differs from the default videos playlist you can find on some channels. To remedy this you should use UULF as prefix which only includes long form videos. So the link to the playlist now looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UULFXnNibvR_YIdyPs8PZIBoEw

Now showing a playlist simply titled "Videos": Videos playlist

Of course, this can not only be used to just view the playlist but directly added as parameter to a video like his newest upload:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PkIh5IsqyY&list=UULFXnNibvR_YIdyPs8PZIBoEw
                                           ^- added as GET parameter

To save time and effort, I recommend the previously mentioned userscript available here, as it automatically adds a button with the correct link and doesn't require additional refreshes of the page. Demo of the YouTube Play All userscript

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just put javascript:Array.prototype.slice.call(document.getElementsByClassName("addto-watch-later-button")).forEach(function(element, index, array){array[index].click();}) in url and hit enter, it adds every video on the current page to watch later list, nasty but it works. Goto ther videos page, click the load mores and use it.

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  • this works better since it spaces out the network requests by 100ms: avascript:Array.prototype.slice.call(document.getElementsByClassName("addto-watch-later-button")).forEach(function(element, index, array){setTimeout(function(a){a.click();}, index * 100, array[index])})
    – supersan
    Jun 16, 2016 at 18:49
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If you have subscribed to the user, Youtube TV is an alternative: https://www.youtube.com/tv

All you need to do is link your account with the app. No apps, plugins, or 3rd party webapps needed.

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  • This works but the audio controls are disabled if you're using a desktop browser.
    – Yuck
    May 3, 2016 at 15:37
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    a am redirecting to youtube.com
    – Alex78191
    Oct 28, 2020 at 21:13
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The Firefox add-on called YouTube Play All seems to do what you want.

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Here's a bookmarklet & code for uploads playlist. Copy and save the line below as a bookmark, open a YouTube video and click the bookmark to load the user's uploads playlist. I don't think a public or auto-generated playlist of all uploads exists, only recent uploads, which is the same as what you see when you click play in the corner of a user's playlist called uploads, and the same you'll find by using this bookmarklet

Bookmark:

javascript:(function()%7Bif%20(window.location.href.indexOf(%22watch%3Fv%3D%22)%20%3E%20-1%20%26%26%20window.location.href.indexOf(%22%26list%3D%22)%20%3C%200)%20%7Bwindow.location%20%2B%3D%20%22%26list%3D%22%20%2B%20%22UU%22%20%2B%20document.documentElement.innerHTML.match('channelId%22%20content%3D%22(.*%3F)%22')%5B1%5D.substr(2)%3B%7D%7D)()

Javascript:

if (window.location.href.indexOf("watch?v=") > -1 && window.location.href.indexOf("&list=") < 0) {
  window.location += "&list=" + "UU" + document.documentElement.innerHTML.match('channelId" content="(.*?)"')[1].substr(2);
}

Note, as mentioned on this page, simply appending "&list=UL" to the video URL doesn't work as desired.

Also worth mentioning this only really works if you load the channel's latest video then use the bookmark

Credit for the bookmarklet method goes to REast and his comment below.

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This is a much simpler way...

Just go to the uploads tab of the YouTube channel, then press "Play all"

enter image description here

That should play the playlist of all videos from a channel

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