Long youtube URL's and other tricks

  • bassman21
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    • 3 years 6 months ago
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    		 When posting youtube videos you can remove anything after the "&" sign. This is just so youtube can track where the video was clicked.

    Take this Cheer commercial (It was random). I clicked it from the related section which adds "&feature=related" to the URL.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXgjn-ZQapw&feature=related

    If you remove the "&" and everything after it still works.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXgjn-ZQapw

    Not a big deal, but makes the URL a little shorter.

    Remember you can add "&fmt=18" or "&fmt=22" to force the video to be high quality too.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXgjn-ZQapw&fmt=18

    Here are some other tricks you can use too by adding "&" or "#" to the URL.

    http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-youtube-url-tricks-you-should-know-about/

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  • Saruman_w
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    		 Yea, I do this all the time. Pretty handy.
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  • Roadgeek
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    		 I've always noticed those weird inclusions you'll sometimes get in YouTube links. But I've always been to scared to delete any of it because it might be something important. Thanks for telling me what part of it needs to go. :)
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  • pepsiru1es92
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    		 Number 9 (9. Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering

    Some videos are only available in certain parts of the world. Your IP Address is used to determine your location and then allow or deny access to the video. Change the url from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= to http://www.youtube.com/v/)

    Is also useful for watching videos that are blocked by age. I discovered this myself a while back
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