Thursday, March 06, 2008

Youtube viewcount hack [UPDATED]

You might have noticed how the search options were removed from youtube.

However with a small editing of the address this can be easily fixed. (A Greasemonkey script could be made, but I'm not into it yet)

So to search by view count, just add this to the end of a normal search address:
&search_sort=video_view_count

So when searching for google the address would be:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=google&search_type=

So by adding &search_sort=video_view_count we get:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=google&search_type=&search_sort=video_view_count

And as you can see it gives view count ordering.

[UPDATE - 15 April]

Youtube went through a face lift these days, so they've included the view count option this time.

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