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By Ben Stegner / Updated January 23, 2019 23-01-2019 / 6 minutes

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Though YouTube remains the premier video site on the web, you
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probably don’t think much about customizing it. But whether you’re a
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casual user or watch online videos every day, there are all sorts of Honors in his major. He enjoys
ways to tweak YouTube. helping others and is passionate
about video games as a medium.
A major category of these are special YouTube URLs. Let’s look at
some YouTube URL tricks to help you get more out of the service, like
turning videos into GIFs.

1. Link to Any Part of a Video

Typically, when you copy a link to a YouTube video, it starts from the
beginning. If you want to show someone just a bit of a video or skip a
lengthy intro, you can append a time stamp to the URL to start it at
that time.

You can do this in a couple of ways. By manually adding &t=YmXXs to

the end of a video URL, you’ll set it to start Y minutes and XX seconds
into the video. You can omit minutes, or use only seconds, such as 90s
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2. Loop a Video Infinitely

YouTube is a great place for listening to music, especially video game
soundtracks for studying. If you’re into a song and want to listen to it
over and over, you can add repeater after youtube in the URL. This will
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So change this URL:

youtube.com/watch?v=oeb5LdAyLC8

To this to loop it:

youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=oeb5LdAyLC8

You can tweak the playback using the options below the video if you
want to start or end at different points. To do this without changing
the URL, just right-click any YouTube video and toggle Loop on.

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YouTube has age restrictions on certain videos that are agged as

containing mature content. Whether you don’t have a YouTube
account or don’t feel like signing in to watch one, you can perform a
little trick to bypass the sign-in.

Take a YouTube URL for a restricted video like this:

youtube.com/watch?v=wvZ6nB3cl1w
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Simply append gen in front of youtube as shown here:

genyoutube.com/watch?v=wvZ6nB3cl1w

The video will open on a new page that features no age restriction.

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Similar to the trick that lets you pick the start time, you can also
choose to skip a certain number of seconds at the start of the video.
You can’t specify minutes with this one, so use 90 (seconds) for a
minute and a half.

So, to skip the rst 30 seconds of this video:

youtube.com/watch?v=uA0nSkSxA3E
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Add &start=30 to the end of the URL and get this:

youtube.com/watch?v=uA0nSkSxA3E&start=30

This is similar to the timing one but is a bit faster to type and doesn’t
require you to remember a certain time stamp.

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If you satisfy these, head to YouTube’s Advanced settings page by

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consoles. It’s still YouTube, but with less clutter and a few shortcuts
that are easier for remotes. You probably won’t want to make this your
main YouTube interface, but it’s worth checking out for a cleaner look.

Just visit this URL to try it:

youtube.com/tv

7. Jump Straight to Your Subscriptions

As hard as it tries, many times the suggestions offered by YouTube
aren’t useful. Whether your recommendations are lled with strange
content or the home page contains videos you don’t care about, you
can set a better YouTube landing page.

When you’re signed in, try changing your YouTube bookmark from the
main site to your subscriptions page using this URL:

youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

This lets you see the newest videos from channels you subscribe to,
so you don’t miss any of their new content. Thus, you’re in control of
what you see instead of YouTube deciding for you.

8. Grab the Thumbnail of Any Video

It’s common when searching Google for images to see pictures from
YouTube videos, usually titled maxresdefault.

You can actually view a high-quality thumbnail for any YouTube video
(if it has one) by visiting the following URL:

img.youtube.com/vi/[VideoID]/maxresdefault.jpg

Replace the [VideoID] with the text after the v= at the end of a
YouTube video. So to view the thumbnail for this video:

youtube.com/watch?v=YMbm_SFJugQ

Visit this link:

img.youtube.com/vi/YMbm_SFJugQ/maxresdefault.jpg

9. Make a GIF from a Video

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Found a YouTube video that has a GIF-worthy moment? You can easily
create an animated GIF from any part of a video by adding gif before
the YouTube link.

So to edit this video into a GIF:

youtube.com/watch?v=gy1B3agGNxw

Change the URL to this:

gifyoutube.com/watch?v=gy1B3agGNxw

You’ll be brought to gifs.com, where you can add a variety of effects

and crop the GIF to your liking. Once done, share the GIF to social
networks with an easy link or download it for safekeeping.

Note that exceptionally long videos won’t work with this service.

10. Mash Up YouTube Videos

This one isn’t a true URL hack, as you can’t visit it right from YouTube.
However, it still uses YouTube URLs, so we’re including it. Visit
YouTubeDoubler and you can add two YouTube URLs to mix together.
You can choose to start either video at a certain time to help them
sync up.

Whether you see how two songs sound when played at the same time
or want to add some funny background music to a clip, have a look
and see what you can create!

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These tricks will let you get even more out of YouTube. Some are built
into YouTube itself, while others rely on outside services. It’s possible
that any of these could stop working in the future, so your mileage
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