Google >

(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.

• jNQXAC9IVRw the oldest YouTube video.

• https://www.youtube.com/@spiralofhope

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• /tag/youtube has a lot of stuff

  • Archivism: /tag/youtube+archivism

• YouTube comments don’t have line breaks

  • Magically fixed itself 2016-06-28.
• YouTube RSS feeds
• Exporting YouTube subscriptions as an RSS OPML file

• 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

• 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.
• 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

• 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.
• 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.

• (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

• YouTube Player Parameters

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• socialblade.com

• Buying votes – purchaseyoutubelikes.com

Downloading YouTube videos and audio ∞

YouTube batch downloading

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)

• http://deturl.com/

Downloading captions ∞

• Tim Smart has Download YouTube Caption, but as of 2016-09-12 it hasn’t been updated since 2014-04-01.

• Maybe youtube-dl

Downloading subtitles ∞

• videovor.com [ 1 ]
• https://downsub.com/
• http://mo.dbxdb.com/Yang/

• 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 ∞

• Thumbnails – 1280×720 or 16:9, under 2MB

  • Making effective thumbnails and avoiding clickbait

Streaming ∞

• Live encoder settings, bitrates, and resolutions

Issues (old) ∞

Commenting on YouTube videos with third-party cookies disabled ∞

1. Tools > Options > Privacy

   • [x] Accept cookies from sites [Exceptions]
   • Accept third-party cookies [Never]
2. Click [Exceptions]
3. Type apis.google.com then click [Allow]

4. 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

• https://github.com/tubepress/tubepress

  • https://github.com/tubepress/tubepress/issues/223

Formats / settings ∞

• Supported YouTube file formats

• Video and audio formatting specifications

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)

• 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.

• 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 ∞

• https://fairtube.info/en/

  • Facebook > FairTube might have been a thing, but fizzled.

Alternatives ∞

• See /tag/media-websites

• https://nebula.tv/explore/videos [ 2 ]

Footnotes

1. 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 [ ↩ ]
2. was https://nebula.tv/videos [ ↩ ]