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Explore YouTube resources in Social & Communication.
MW Metadata gathers metadata about a YouTube video, playlist, or channel from the YouTube API. Users submit a link or ID, and the tool supports reverse image search of thumbnails, geolocation in Google Maps, and translation of ISO country and language codes. Results can be exported as a zip file or shared.
YouTube Notes is a page for taking notes on YouTube videos without leaving the keyboard. A video appears after a URL is entered and loaded. Keyboard shortcuts cover seeking, volume, play/pause, inserting time marks, and playback speed. The shortcuts only work when the text area has focus.
YouTube Search Fixer is a free, open-source browser extension that removes Shorts, Mixes, playlists, suggestions and clickbait text from YouTube search results. It also offers search and layout tools, including Power Search and a grid view. The developers state it collects no telemetry and requires no account.
YouTube Subscription History is a website that shows when a user subscribed to a YouTube channel. It relies on the YouTube API, which returns subscriptions with their subscribe dates, and requires the user to make subscriptions public in privacy settings first.
A guide describing how to combine personal YouTube playlists and non-editable YouTube-generated playlists into one consolidated, editable playlist that the user owns. It outlines steps including creating a new playlist, adding videos, organizing order, and sharing.
ChatReplay is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
clip.cafe is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
comb.io is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
DeArrow is an open source browser extension that replaces titles and thumbnails on YouTube with community created versions. Titles can be any text, and thumbnails are screenshots from specific timestamps, submitted and voted on by users. When no submissions exist, the extension can format the original title and set a screenshot from a random timestamp as the thumbnail.
Favoree is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
Filmot searches within YouTube subtitles, captions and transcripts, and phrases can be enclosed in double quotation marks. The site states it indexes over 1.7B transcripts across 1.5B videos and 84M channels, and that logged-in users can add private notes to videos and enable daily email reports for new results.
FocusTube is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
FreeTVz is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
Hergetto is a service for watching videos together online rather than in person. Users find or create a room, send the link to friends and watch together from separate rooms. The project was created during the lockdown.
Hobune is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
Open-source browser extension that enhances YouTube, giving users more control over content discovery, playback, and look and feel. It offers options such as permanent playback speed, disabling up-next autoplay, auto-pause when switching tabs, hiding ads, and locking video quality. The extension runs offline to modify the local view, and development dates back to 2012.
InPhrase is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
Kadium is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
LikeSearch is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
Browser-based tool that loops or repeats any YouTube video or a chosen section, and slows playback without changing pitch. It also supports looping sections of uploaded audio files, with in-browser use and no account required for basic looping. LoopTube can be embedded on other websites, with an embed builder and parameters for video, loop, tempo, colours, and controls.
Materialious is a material design frontend for YouTube and Invidious aimed at a clean, privacy-friendly experience. It runs on Web, Windows, Android, Android TV, Docker, macOS and Linux, and supports local video fallback when Invidious fails.
ObscureTube presents random low-view YouTube videos, many with zero views, and adds new finds daily. Users can go back, block channels and share clips, and the site remembers what has been seen.
Piped is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
Playboard is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
