YouTube Tips and Tricks

YouTube is the best video sharing website where all of us spend a lot of time watching various videos. In this blog post, I am going to share a long list of YouTube tips and tricks.

Download YouTube videos without any app

YouTube generally doesn’t allow users to download videos. However, users found out many ways to download. But, there is an easy trick to do this. Adding just two letters in the URL will allow downloading the video.

All, you need to do is to add "ss" just before YouTube.com. Let’s understand with the example below:

Normal Video URL => http://www.youtube.com/watch?

After adding "ss"  => http://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?

Once you added the "ss" in the URL, hit enter which will take you to a third party site .

Now, just click on download and video will be downloaded.

Do the Harlem Shake

Type Do the Harlem Shake in the YouTube search bar and hit Enter. It will start playing the song Harlem Shake. The YouTube logo will start shaking as well.  Just next to the logo, you can see a button to stop the song.

And the whole page starts dancing as per the beats.

Make your YouTube page Colorful

Just type Doge Meme in the YouTube search bar, and you will see everything turns colorful. Font also gets changed to Comic Sans.

After Typing Doge Meme hit Enter.

Bypass age and regional restriction without logging in

There are times when you browse YouTube without logging in, and you may find some videos that are age or region restricted. To remove such restrictions, you need to log in. Once you log in, you get the access to that age-restricted or region-restricted video.

However, there is a trick that bypasses these restrictions without even logging in, and to do that you have to do editing in the video URL.

Take an example of a video URL which looks as:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example (this is not a video just only a example)

All you need to do is to, remove “watch?” and replace “=” with “/”, and hit enter. You will see that the restricted video starts playing.

So, the new URL will be:

http://www.youtube.com/v/example

Mind it that when you try this trick, the video will only play full screen on your browser .

Extract a .gif file from any Video

People enjoy watching animated .gif files which are usually small clips either created using some software or just a trimmed part of some videos. When you see many people sharing so many gif images on their social profiles, you might have thought how people create such moving images so easily.

Let me tell you that it isn’t a big task to extract a gif file from videos. You just need to go to YouTube.com, open a video and look at the URL.

You need to add gif just before youtube.com.

Now, hit enter and it will take you to gifs.com and the same video will be opened there automatically. Now, you need to set the start and end time to cut out that portion of the video.

There are various tools available to customize your gif that you can see on the left in that page.