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A website for submitting, searching for and watching unlisted YouTube videos. Registration is not required. It lists guidelines on permitted and forbidden videos, and allows uploaders to block submissions by inserting a statement in the video description.
Enhancer for YouTube is a browser extension for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox that adds playback and interface controls to YouTube. It provides playback speed control, preferred quality selection, volume control and boosting, forced frame rate and codec options, autoplay prevention, mini and pop-up players, and options to hide comments, chat, related videos and shorts.
FreeTube is an open-source desktop YouTube client focused on privacy for Windows, Mac and Linux. It stores subscriptions, playlists and history locally, does not track viewing habits, and shows no ads. It scrapes data locally or optionally uses the Invidious API, and subscriptions can be imported from YouTube.
A site by Riley Walz presenting a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million videos uploaded with default IMG_XXXX filenames. It notes that iPhones between 2009 and 2012 included a "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app, and many uploads kept their default filenames. The videos are shown ordered randomly.
Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube. It offers a privacy-focused interface that does not track users, allows subscribing to channels and creating playlists without a YouTube account, removes ads, supports Sponsorblock, is available in many languages, and provides a documented REST API for developers.
YouTube video is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
PreserveTube is described as a time capsule for YouTube videos. It preserves any YouTube video by creating a snapshot that remains available even if the original video disappears or is taken down. It saves the original video along with descriptions, titles and other metadata.
PreserveTube is a time capsule for YouTube videos. It preserves any YouTube video by creating a snapshot that stays available even if the original video disappears or is taken down. It saves the original video along with descriptions, titles and other metadata. The maximum video size is 100MB.
Project Random is described as a random, obscure content generator for the web that surfaces media with zero views from platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Spotify and others. It lists video, audio and games sources such as YouTube Shorts, Twitch VODs, Soundcloud and Scratch Projects.
Sink It is a free browser extension that modifies the web versions of Reddit, YouTube, Twitter/X and Google search. For Reddit it adds comment navigation, adaptive dark mode and double-click upvoting, and removes app banners, buttons and ads. The YouTube and Twitter/X extensions are described as coming soon to the App Store.
Tartube is a GUI front-end for youtube-dl, yt-dlp and other compatible video downloaders, written in Python 3 / Gtk 3 and running on MS Windows, Linux, BSD and MacOS. It fetches video lists from channels on YouTube, Twitch, Odysee and other sites, can download videos, and organise them into folders. It is free and open-source software.
vidIQ is a free browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge that overlays YouTube and Instagram with creator tools. On YouTube it provides SEO scores, keyword suggestions, AI title, description and tag recommendations, competitor overlays, and a studio upload optimizer with posting-time suggestions. On Instagram it offers Reel ideas, hook and engagement scoring, and a caption and hashtag generator.
ViewSync is a multiple YouTube viewer that plays several YouTube videos at once with synchronized audio, accurate to within a tenth of a second. Links are generated by stopping each video at an audio cue and testing the audio. It was originally designed for watching Mindcrack UHC episodes.
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.
YouTube Comment Viewer is a viewer for YouTube comments. It sorts comments by oldest first and graphs comment trends. The page provides options for time zone, aggregation by hour, day, month or year, and filtering, plus loading statistics for a video.
A free YouTube thumbnail downloader that retrieves any thumbnail in full HD from watch, Shorts and embed links, with no login required. The page also promotes Reflare, an AI tool for A/B testing thumbnails.
YTThumbnailHD is a free online tool for viewing and downloading available thumbnail images from public YouTube videos and Shorts. It extracts the video ID from a pasted URL and generates direct links to YouTube's thumbnail image endpoints without storing the images, offering preview, copy, open, and download options.
Filmot Title Restorer is a user script for youtube.com that restores titles for removed or private videos in YouTube playlists. According to the source, it restores title and channel information in a playlist for removed or private videos using the filmot.com metadata search engine, and fetches thumbnails from the Internet Archive if available.
Free Music Archive is a royalty-free music resource offering independent artists and original music. Tracks are free to play, download and share, and can be used in media such as YouTube, Facebook and podcast episodes. The platform is powered by Tribe of Noise and began in 2008.
The Digital Methods Initiative Tool Archive is a list and archive of tools developed by the DMI and affiliates. It notes that some tools are actively maintained and others are not. Featured tools include 4CAT, Issuecrawler, YouTube Data Tools and Zeeschuimer.
A free web tool for finding and viewing comments on public YouTube videos and Shorts. Users paste a video URL and search comments by keyword, phrase, or @mention, with results showing author, timestamp, like count and replies. It requires no login, API key, or browser extension.
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.
Decache is a Windows program that scans a computer's cache for files matching hundreds of pieces of lost media, including over 500 lost YouTube videos and Flash games. Users run start_decache.bat and select a drive to scan, and the project accepts video suggestions and submissions.
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.
