10 Useful Youtube URL Tips and Tricks

We have already Discussed How to Download Youtube videos and How to extract Audio from Youtube Videos.In this article we discuss some Interesting You Tube URL tricks .

1.Watch You Tube in a Distraction free Environment

If You want to Watch Only the Video and Nothing Else In You tube,Viddler or Vimeo Then Drag and Drop This Bookmarklet in your Bookmarks Toolbar.Whenever you are on a You tube page Watching a Video Just click The bookmarklet and It lets You watch Only the Video and Fades Out Everything from the screen. (See example).

The Bookmarklet also creates a Short Url For you so You can easily share The Video That you are watching On Microblogging Sites like Twitter etc.

If you Have Greasemonkey Installed you can try this Greasemonkey Script

2.Autoplay a Video On Loading

By default YouTube Videos are Not Autoplay Enabled. The Video Starts Loading When You Hit the play Button. But If you want a Video To Autoplay Immediately when the page loads Just append the string “&autoplay=1” to the Video URL and remove everything before and after the embedded tag.

For example : Consider a Sample Video with Video URL as     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoid.To autoplay this Video Embed the following Code In a Webpage :

<embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/videoid &hl=en&autoplay=1 type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed>

Remember to replace the video ID with the ID of the Video.You Will find It From the Video URL. Read our detailed guide on how to embed Youtube video with auto-play enabled.

3. Hide the Search Box

You can Hide the You Tube Search Box by adding  ‘&showsearch=0′ (without quotes) to the embed url.

So if your video source is : <embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/videoid &hl=en&autoplay=1 type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed>

To Hide the search Box The modified code Would be :

<embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/videoid &showsearch=0 hl=en& type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed>

4.Loop a Video

If you want to loop a Video append “ &loop=1” to the end of the url.

So if your video source is : <embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/videoid &hl=en type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed>

Your Modified code would be : <embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/videoid &hl=en&loop=1 type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed>

Read our detailed guide on how to embed Youtube video with auto-loop enabled.

5. Disable Related Videos In the You-tube Video player

Suppose You have Embedded a Video In your Blog or webpage and do not want to show the related videos Options When your video Ends.In That case append the string “&rel=0” at the end of video URL and All those related video Suggestions are gone.

So if your video source is : <embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/videoid &hl=en type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed>

Your Modified code would be : <embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/videoid &hl=en&rel=0 type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed>

6. View High Quality videos

Not all Videos in You Tube are available in High Quality format.you can check Whether a Video is available In high Quality Format By appending “&fmt=18” and “&fmt=22” (use both of them without quotes) at the end of the URL.

7. Jump to a Specific Part of a Video

You can jump or link to a specific part of a YouTube video very easily.Simply Copy the URL of the You tube Video and append #t=xmys at the end of it. Here x Stands for minutes and Y stands for seconds.

8. Embed only a part Of the Video

Say you have a long Video with a Boring and unwanted 1 Minute Intro.You want to skip that Intro and Embed The video just after 1 minute.

In that case Just append ‘&start=60′ to skip first 60 seconds of the video.

If Your You Tube Video Embed code is :

<embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/videoid &hl=en type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed>

Your Modified code after 60 seconds would be : <embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/videoid &hl=en &start=60 type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed>

Related : Watch Youtube Videos on large Screens With Youtube XL

9.Overcome the Country Limitation :

Some You tube Videos may be Blocked and You can’t See them.This is because Some videos have country Limitation imposed on them .To Overcome The Country limitation replace “?” and “=” with a “/” .So if  the Video Url of a blocked Video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=somenumber  your Modified video URL will be  http://www.youtube.com/v/somenumber

10. Fool a friend : Flip The Video

Not a Useful trick though but if you want to Flip a Youtube Video for fun just append  ‘&flip=1′ at The end of the Video URL and the Video is flipped as upside Down.Funny !

What’s Your Favorite You Tube Video URL Trick ? Share With Us If I missed anything and I will surely add it Up.