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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.youtube.com/
A video hosting website.
It used to be great, but Google took it over, removed video responses, fucked up comments and left the service in shambles.
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jNQXAC9IVRw the oldest YouTube video.
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/tag/youtube has a lot of stuff
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YouTube comments don't have line breaks
- Magically fixed itself 2016-06-28.
- YouTube RSS feeds
- Exporting YouTube subscriptions as an RSS OPML file
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Hand-making YouTube videos using Linux tools was an old series of efforts to build videos from scratch.
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- 2021-05-04 -- "Allow people to sample this content" feature was recently added, but it must be disabled individually.
- 2021-01-21 -- 720p and 1080p force 60fps
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2020-06-13 -- To bring back the old (faster) design on Pale Moon 28.10.0 (64-bit) I used Greasemonkey
- greasyfork.org/en/scripts/32906-get-me-old-youtube-works-no-longer
-- .. but it stopped working and was eventually just deleted.
- greasyfork.org/en/scripts/32906-get-me-old-youtube-works-no-longer
- 2020-05-26 -- To support Pale Moon 28.9.3 (64-bit) on Debian 10.1.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1, I had to:
general.useragent.override.youtube.com;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
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2020-02-07 -- The new YouTube is slow as shit because it's "new" design is actually built with an old standard and browsers have moved on. Funnily enough, Chrome supports that old standard really well and is fast.
- To revert back:
about:config
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 PaleMoon/28.8.2.1
(Then restart the browser)
-- It would later stop working.
- To revert back:
- 2019-02-17 -- I have YouTube comments emailed to my Gmail account. Today I found one put into my spam folder. It was not spam. It wasn't anything even close to spam.
- 2009-07-15 -- The quicklist has a limit of 100, at least when not logged-in. When you add additional videos, they silently knock videos off of that stack.
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(date not recorded) -- If you change the top-left country code thing, make damned sure you close out of any other youtube tab. Funny things will happen if you don't. For example, uploaded videos will fail.
- YouTube report history
- Creator Academy
- Interactive YouTube API Demo Beta
- Recommended upload encoding settings
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- socialblade.com
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Buying votes - purchaseyoutubelikes.com
Downloading YouTube videos and audio ∞
See /tag/youtube+archivism+media-software
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170524234016/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-video-and-audio-dow/ (source)
Downloading captions ∞
- Tim Smart has Download YouTube Caption, but as of 2016-09-12 it hasn't been updated since 2014-04-01.
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Maybe youtube-dl
Downloading subtitles ∞
- videovor.com [ 1 ]
- https://downsub.com/
- http://mo.dbxdb.com/Yang/
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Maybe youtube-dl
Downloading comments ∞
See /tag/youtube+archivism+writing
Shortening links ∞
Note that this does not work with embedding playlists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw => https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw
Embedding a YouTube video ∞
Note that this works with both long and short URLs.
[embed]https://youtu.be/FOO[/embed]
Random notes ∞
external URL referencing..
&eurl=http://example.com
[very old note] - Video quality sucks? Append &fmt=18
:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw&fmt=18
Or use a bookmarklet:
javascript:window.location+="&fmt=18"
to force "high quality" (mp4)-
javascript:window.location+="&fmt=22"
to force "high def" (format not known)
(This only works with long URLs and not youtu.be
URLS, and I'm not sure it even works any more.)
Tips and tricks ∞
Using YouTube with Pale Moon ∞
Change the user agent:
2019-09-07 on Pale Moon 28.7.0
In about:config add general.useragent.override.studio.youtube.com
with
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.9 PaleMoon/28.8.2
Using YouTube Studio with Pale Moon ∞
Change the user agent:
2019-09-07 on Pale Moon 28.7.0
In about:config add general.useragent.override.studio.youtube.com
with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0
Settings ∞
Thumbnails ∞
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Thumbnails - 1280x720 or 16:9, under 2MB
Streaming ∞
Issues (old) ∞
Commenting on YouTube videos with third-party cookies disabled ∞
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Tools > Options > Privacy
- [x] Accept cookies from sites [Exceptions]
- Accept third-party cookies [Never]
- Click [Exceptions]
- Type apis.google.com then click [Allow]
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Type plus.google.com then click [Allow]
Playlists are backwards ∞
YouTube playlists fucking play backwards.
- https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/BItuMhIOptU
- https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/sv57myhC-As
Formats / settings ∞
Profile picture guidelines ∞
2021-02-19 from their documentation:
Your profile picture must follow our Community Guidelines and meet the following criteria:
- JPG, GIF, BMP, or PNG file (no animated GIFs)
- 800 X 800 px image (recommended)
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Square or round image that renders at 98 X 98 px
Banner image guidelines ∞
2021-02-19 from their documentation:
Your banner image must meet the following criteria:
- Minimum dimension for upload: 2048 x 1152 px with an aspect ratio of 16:9.
- At the Minimum dimension, the safe area for text and logos: 1235 x 338 px. Larger images may get cropped on certain views or devices.
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File size: 6 MB or smaller.
Hide YouTube shorts ∞
Use uBlock Origin
Visit
chrome-extension://cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm/dashboard.html#1p-filters.html
My filters >
www.youtube.com##:xpath(//ytd-grid-video-renderer[descendant::a[contains(@href,"shorts")] and not(contains(@class,"shelf"))])
Misc ∞
Alternatives ∞
Last updated 2023-09-14 at 06:39:05
Footnotes
- This has gone by many URLs, such as:
https://www.videovor.com/en/video-download-1 through -9
https://www.videovor.com/en/downloader-1
https://www.videovor.com/en/downloader-01
https://www.videovor.com/en/best-downloader
https://www.videovor.com/en/instant-downloader
https://www.videovor.com/en/my-downloader
https://www.videovor.com/en/free-downloader
https://www.videovor.com/en/simple-downloader
https://www.videovor.com/en/fastest-downloader - [ _↩_ ]
Added a small comment.
Also, apparently WordPress failed to record one of my edits but had it lodged in a revision. Sigh; recovered.
Restructured. New "tips and tricks" section.
Added a section for downloading comments.
The thumbnail recommended size has increased.
Dumbass me has been blowing up my old 720p thumbnails to 1080p.
Using YouTube Studio with Pale Moon
Once again, YouTube doesn't like Pale Moon.
added a pale moon hack to support youtube
GreaseMonkey script to fix the style/speed
I can't play 1080p 60fps video well under [[VirtualBox]]..
"Whoopie", it looks like a new feature was added which allows copyright violation.