Questions tagged [youtube]
For questions about the web interface of YouTube (www.youtube.com, youtu.be). Questions about native smartphone apps are off-topic here.
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Link to Bitchute Video at Specific Starting Time
In youtube, you can link to a video at a specific starting time by adding query string parameters, like ?t=23m3s, to the end of the URL.
How can this be done with bitchute videos?
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YouTube abysmally slow; high connection speed and other HD streaming fast—what gives?
YouTube used to work just fine for me. I could stream videos in 1080p HD with no problems or buffering. Now, for the past few weeks/months I haven't had even close to that experience. Only 480p and ...
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How to filter YouTube search result by language?
I want to get video result in specific language.
I want want a filler like that:
test, lang:ru
Didnt work
Or maybe in url parameter filter:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=test&...
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Hide player controls while fullscreen in YouTube
Is it possible to prevent YouTube's (HTML5) fullscreen player controls from showing whenever it first goes into fullscreen mode?
Like, don't show this automatically (at all):
I want it to still show ...
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Is there any way to filter YouTube videos by language?
Videos in search results on YouTube are often in languages different than the ones I speak and so, useless to me.
Is it possible to either make them not appear to me at all (e.g. by some account ...
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How to organize Youtube play lists in Alphabetical order under the Save button?
I've created many YouTube playlists and it's getting harder and harder to find the right playlist when I click on save as they are not sorted alphabetically.
Is there a way to sort the playlists ...
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Restrict YouTube recommendations to some language(s)
Is there any way I could restrict YouTube recommendations to just English, or better, English and some other languages too?
My three years old loves watching cartoons on YouTube. He does not type ...
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How to open tweet-embedded YouTube in new tab directly?
I often see tweets that have embedded YouTube videos without an actual link to them in the text contents. Example: https://twitter.com/SCSsoftware/status/996772457125240832
My followees mostly ...
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Advanced search query to return only official/partner videos on YouTube
I've come across many articles (no. 14 on this, and no. 3 on this, for example) advising the addition of
, partner
at the end of a query to return only official videos, i.e., videos from partner ...
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Play YouTube in 2x automatically in Firefox
How can I make videos play automatically in 2x speed in Firefox? In other words, I want 2x to be the default speed when opening a video.
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Is there any way to allow YouTube users to sort channel-specific search results by date?
When you search for videos throughout all of YouTube, the website allows you to sort the search results by date.
And when you go to an individual channel/user--say, CNN, for example--YouTube allows ...
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Search YouTube and exclude certain terms from the video's title?
How can I search YouTube and exclude certain terms from the video's title? For instance, I want to search for "glass" but exclude videos with "Google" in the title.
I'd like to stress that I want to ...
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How do I force YouTube to always use the arrow keys for playback seeking?
If I changed the volume before using the arrow keys, the arrow keys will change the volume instead of seek playback (skip back and forth 5 seconds). How do I remove this behaviour and make it so it ...
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Can others see if a YouTube video's monetisation is redirected off the uploader to the copyright claimer?
I think if someone besides the video uploader claims copyright for the video, then YouTube redirects ad monetisation to the copyright claimant. Is there a way for other viewers to know if this ...
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YouTube: force autoplay of videos that are called via link in browser
I have problems controlling the behaviour of YouTube videos when called via browser (here: Firefox).
I use links such as
https://youtu.be/lom2zWhpJXI
which on clicking them (or otherwise handing over ...
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How to generate a YouTube playlist of the most recent videos from each channel you follow?
I follow about 20 or so channels, and while going to the subscription endpoint will show me a list of the latest videos from each channel, I still have to click each one separately. I'm looking for a ...
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Youtube force language of auto-generated subtitles
It happens to me countless times. Just for an example,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djzGkEWzCwM
the language options of the closed captions only have one auto-generated option, which is "Korean (...
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Sort YouTube comment history by likes
I was curious to see if there was any way I could see all of my YouTube comments, and there is, in the history section. I have a lot of comments, and after scrolling through them for a while, I wanted ...
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Is there any way to remove deleted videos all at once from YouTube playlist?
I have several playlists with few hundreds videos each. When any video gets deleted I receive "One or more videos have been removed from the playlist because they were deleted from YouTube" message. ...
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How to sort Youtube subscriptions by updates?
When I enter YT on the left pane I have "Subscriptions" section sorted by the date of the subscription. So as the effect I could have:
Subscriptions
A
D 1
E
F
G 7
--- show more ---
B 3
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YouTube maxresdefault.jpg is not being generated
We have a number of videos that we upload to YouTube and we pull and display on our site the maxresdefault.jpg image for each video.
For some reason there are some videos where the maxresdefault.jpg ...
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How to stop YouTube HTML5 video auto-loading (prefetching)
I'm looking for a way to stop YouTube from automatically loading or prefetching HTML5 videos in my browser (Chrome 43).
I tried to use the "Stop YouTube HTML5 Autoplay" extension but It doesn't do ...
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Ended up with two YouTube accounts, how to merge?
I had a Google account that I used to use for subscriptions and watching stuff over the past few months. Then I tried to comment on a video, it popped up a dialog asking me to create a YouTube Channel ...
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What are the keyboard shortcuts for navigating a YouTube search result list?
When I search YouTube, is there a shortcut for choosing the first/second/third... etc. video I'm offered?
When I search YouTube keyboard shortcuts, I only see YouTube player keyboard shortcuts such ...
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Explanation of the YouTube warning: Experiment: There may be confidential content in your search results. Please do not share outside Google
If you now search for anything in YouTube, it gives this weird warning:
What does it mean?
I expect it will probably be just a bug/mistake, but there is only speculation going on and I would like a ...
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How to force YouTube to generate subtitles or caption automatically?
I am having a hard time with my studying. I have to take many courses in Korean but I don't know any Korean. I tried to record the video lecture and then upload it on YouTube automatically to have ...
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As a viewer of a YouTube video, can one see whether the video received a copyright claim?
I saw a video on YouTube. I am just a viewer: I have not uploaded that video to YouTube. Can I see whether the video received a copyright claim?
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Recreate a youtube playlist from a mhtml file
I've been adding music to my playlist for a long time and back it up often to a mhtml file, it has all the details of the normal playlist page and even has the urls of the songs when you click on them,...
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How to search for exact matches of single-word video titles?
I would like to search for videos on YouTube whose title matches a single-word query.
For example, if I search for titles containing the word "verb", I only want YouTube to return results ...
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Is there a way to skip forward and backwards on YouTube using the keyboard media keys while unfocused?
My question is very similar to this one, only I would like to be able to control YouTube's fast forward and backwards feature (the one you do with right and left arrow when focused) while unfocused.
I ...
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How to identify the youtube channel of a deleted video?
Every now and then, video URL I noted down (instead of bookmarking) turn out to have been deleted/removed or not be viewable in a way or another, and youtube doesn't redirect me to the channel's page ...
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Stop YouTube Playlist Autoplaying to Unrelated Videos
For some reason, when I reach the end of my YouTube music playlist, instead of just stopping, it autoplays to a completely unrelated video that isn't in the playlist. I don't known when this started, ...
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Is there any way to disable YouTube's miniplayer mode?
Miniplayer is a YouTube mode that puts the current video in a "picture-in-picture" so you can continue watching the video while browsing other videos.
I never want to use this mode. However, ...
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Is it possible to transfer subscriptions, likes, watchlists, and comments from one account to another?
In YouTube, is it possible to transfer subscriptions, likes, watchlists, and comments from one account to another?
I don't have a channel or own any original video.
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YouTube videos from verified channels only
I would imagine for many YouTube users like me, it is a common nuisance to sift through YouTube's vast content to find the videos uploaded by verified sources (channels). I wonder if there is a way to ...
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How can I search YouTube including description and sort by date?
When I search YouTube normally, it finds matches including in video descriptions. But if I sort the results by upload date, then most of the videos are removed from the search, and it seems to only ...
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How to "force" YouTube to AutoBuffer the whole video?
I have very fast internet, but it gets interrupted a lot (or so it seems with YouTube specifically), and even if it is smooth, I get bugged when I want to skip to a later certain point of the video ...
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In YouTube, how to filter comments - by popularity. Because it does not work anymore
YouTube forcefully stealing attention and time, by not letting anymore to filter comments by popularity. Instead button function now is popular comments mixed with not popular more then not I guess. ...
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Moving a YouTube URL from one account to another
My friend has the URL youtube.com/name under his YouTube account which I want to transfer to my Google account.
When I type in the URL youtube.com/name I am redirected to another URL youtube.com/c/...
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Why watch time different in Youtube Analytics and Monetization page?
Recently my Youtube channel crossed 4k hour watch time in the last 365 days. I have 1301 subscribers and 4.4k hour watch time. Please see the attached image.
So, as per Youtube rules I can apply for ...
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Knowing whether a copyright infringement will demonetise or block on youtube
I run a weekly pub quiz for a choir I'm in. We run it via youtube and google forms to make life easier for everybody but obviously media rounds cause a copyright problem.
Currently my strategy is to ...
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Choosing "Approved Content" on YouTube Kids
I set up YouTube Kids for my child with the "Approved content only" setting.
During initial setup, it asked me which videos I want to approve. I only approved one video, figuring I could approve ...
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How can I add caption files at the same time as I upload videos to YouTube?
I have 100 .mp4 video files that I want to upload to YouTube. For each .mp4 file I have a .srt file (caption file) with the same file name. Is there any way I can upload all videos and caption files ...
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Can't switch off YouTube dark mode
I can't switch off YouTube dark mode; the image here explains it:
Can someone help? Restarting the browser doesn't help. If I switch mode and restart it, it is dark again.
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How can I prevent open tabs with YouTube videos from playing after Windows 10 restarts?
I have several tabs open with YouTube videos, in several windows. This is on Chrome, Windows 10.
I know that if I sleep the computer, everything will come back OK.
But if I log out of Windows, Chrome ...
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How much does deleting Google activity from your YouTube account do?
From YouTube, by going to your account then pressing settings, and going down to “manage all activity” and deleting a video from your history, how much will that do? If I watched a brief part of a ...
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Watching older Youtube Live Streams
I just noticed the following Youtube livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPfHHls50-w
which is of a Falcon Heavy launch which happened 9 days ago. Despite that, it still is marked as LIVE and ...
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Filter out audio-only content on YouTube
When searching on YouTube, is there any way I can filter out videos that really are audio only and only has meaningless placeholder "watch paint dry" video content, eg.
a single static image
a series ...
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Google switches primary and secondary email accounts regardless of login order
I have two separate email accounts logged into Google Chrome that switch order regardless of the order I log into them. I want to stop this from happening.
I log into my personal email first, so that ...
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Redirect Google search to YouTube in one click
I don't really know if I'm in the right place to ask the question, and I apologize for my poor English.
At the time, Google had this thing called black bar, some liked it, some didn't like it, some ...
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