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For example, I want to play all 58 videos uploaded by a single user.

Obviously I could create a playlist, add each video to it, then play the entire playlist, but is there a simpler way?

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URL hacking for the rescue! You can append &list=UL to the end of a video URL from that user.

So, if you have:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zucBfXpCA6s

it should become:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zucBfXpCA6s&list=UL

                                           ^ right here

You could also add something like this to your bookmark and simply click on it:

javascript:window.location+='&list=UL'

Select it then drag and drop it on your bookmarks. (how?)

Now, there is an issue!

It's got a weird behaviour as dear @burtek brought to my attention on the comments.

In my instance here, with Valentina Lisitsa, she got 272 videos right now, but it won't ever show more than 99 on the list. And it seems like it's ordered from oldest to newest, so if you want to play all videos you rather start with the user's first video. In her case, this is it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS_foc_NxI0&list=UL

From there you can leave it playing and it will play all her videos.

Seemed like the current video will always try to be in position #20 of the list, showing 19 previous ones and 79 next ones, but now I believe it's even more random than that.

Most users, however, do have an "uploads" section on their profile, and you can just click on "Play All" right there to get a generated playlist from newest to oldest, like @wisbucky pointed in another answer here:

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/82675/4616

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    And it includes only a few of the user's videos – burtek May 30 '14 at 21:31
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    Sure. youtube.com/watch?v=UWMBsK6lV1k&list=UL. Also here's the screenshot: zapisz.net/images/757_yt.png. 153 filmy means 153 videos ;) – burtek May 30 '14 at 23:20
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    How did you find out about the &list=UL bit? – confused00 Dec 20 '15 at 18:59
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    @confused00 I don't recall. I think I was looking around trying to find an answer to this question and eventually ended up realizing youtube had this way to view such a playlist. Figuring out the url bit from there was trivial, if you know how they work. – cregox Dec 21 '15 at 0:17
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    @confused00 that's my point. If you go right now to Valentina's channel and find Uploads you'll see there a Play All button. Back when I wrote this answer, that would lead to that list=UL. Now it's leading to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuFJ06wtcmM&list=UU6UbiyGEGkF5iuqKRsShCOg and I didn't dig more to know why it's this different now. Just trying to illustrate how I might have done it in that past. ;) – cregox Dec 21 '15 at 3:50
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You could also use this site here: http://youtube.nestharion.de

It creates a playlist with all the videos from a user and plays them continually.

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Much easier way now:

  1. Go to the user's Youtube home page (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/xyz/ ).

  2. Hover over the "Uploads" section. You will see a "Play all" button appear next to "Uploads".

  3. Click on "Play all" and it will generate a playlist with all the user's uploaded videos from newest to oldest. (I just wish there was an easy option to sort from oldest to newest)

Screenshot:

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  • I don't see a "Play All" button. Was this removed? Care to add a screenshot? – Yuck May 3 '16 at 15:35
  • @Yuck, I added a screenshot. On some user home pages, the "Uploads" section doesn't show up, so then it's not possible. But it's there for most users. – wisbucky May 3 '16 at 17:59
  • Thanks, that helps. It's actually my mistake anyway. I was on the "Videos" tab which shows "Uploads" but doesn't have the button to Play All. When I am on a user's main page I do see the button. – Yuck May 3 '16 at 19:43
  • fwiw, in the new design there is a "play all" button on the /videos page, in the current design (the one seen in the screenshot), the channel in question needs to have the "recent uploads" playlist featured on their channel. – Leo Wattenberg Feb 18 '17 at 16:01
  • It only plays about 12 videos. – Ken Sharp Jan 20 at 21:33
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Little trick I found is to get a user's unique code/string from their profile page's source. Here's how to do it:

  • Go to their user page and right-click -> "view page source".
  • Search for "vnd" and copy the code that you find (It should start with "UC").
  • Open one of the user's videos. In the URL address, add the following to the end: "&list=" then paste the string you copied.
  • Final step is simply change the 2nd character of the code you pasted from a C to a U. Hit enter and the video should reload, and now it appears in a playlist of all the user's videos.

This seems to work pretty reliably, but sometimes does not get all of the user's videos.

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just put javascript:Array.prototype.slice.call(document.getElementsByClassName("addto-watch-later-button")).forEach(function(element, index, array){array[index].click();}) in url and hit enter, it adds every video on the current page to watch later list, nasty but it works. Goto ther videos page, click the load mores and use it.

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  • this works better since it spaces out the network requests by 100ms: avascript:Array.prototype.slice.call(document.getElementsByClassName("addto-watch-later-button")).forEach(function(element, index, array){setTimeout(function(a){a.click();}, index * 100, array[index])}) – supersan Jun 16 '16 at 18:49
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If you have subscribed to the user, Youtube TV is an alternative: https://www.youtube.com/tv

All you need to do is link your account with the app. No apps, plugins, or 3rd party webapps needed.

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  • This works but the audio controls are disabled if you're using a desktop browser. – Yuck May 3 '16 at 15:37
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The Firefox add-on called YouTube Play All seems to do what you want.

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Here's a bookmarklet & code for uploads playlist. Copy and save the line below as a bookmark, open a YouTube video and click the bookmark to load the user's uploads playlist. I don't think a public or auto-generated playlist of all uploads exists, only recent uploads, which is the same as what you see when you click play in the corner of a user's playlist called uploads, and the same you'll find by using this bookmarklet

Bookmark:

javascript:(function()%7Bif%20(window.location.href.indexOf(%22watch%3Fv%3D%22)%20%3E%20-1%20%26%26%20window.location.href.indexOf(%22%26list%3D%22)%20%3C%200)%20%7Bwindow.location%20%2B%3D%20%22%26list%3D%22%20%2B%20%22UU%22%20%2B%20document.documentElement.innerHTML.match('channelId%22%20content%3D%22(.*%3F)%22')%5B1%5D.substr(2)%3B%7D%7D)()

Javascript:

if (window.location.href.indexOf("watch?v=") > -1 && window.location.href.indexOf("&list=") < 0) {
  window.location += "&list=" + "UU" + document.documentElement.innerHTML.match('channelId" content="(.*?)"')[1].substr(2);
}

Note, as mentioned on this page, simply appending "&list=UL" to the video URL doesn't work as desired.

Also worth mentioning this only really works if you load the channel's latest video then use the bookmark

Credit for the bookmarklet method goes to REast and his comment below.

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It's subtle, and it's cheeky, but it can be done:

Given a particular channel URL:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9mPk8yIk1AUC8PDsUYFBaA

You can fiddle a little bit and:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9mPk8yIk1AUC8PDsUYFBaA

Note that you change channel/UC to playlist?list=UU.

$ echo "$URL" | sed 's/channel\/UC/playlist\?list=UU/'

You don't need to have a particular video.

The playlist can't be sorted, saved or manipulated in any useful way (at time of writing), but when you hit "Play all" or pick a video you can use the shuffle button 🔀 in the playlist.

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