All vikisPlay All Videos From a Channel
To play every video a YouTube channel has uploaded, take its channel ID, change the leading UC to UU and open youtube.com/playlist?list= followed by that code. UULF lists only the long videos, UUSH only the Shorts and UULV only the live streams.
To play every video on a YouTube channel in one go, copy the channel's ID, change its first two letters from UC to UU, and open https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list= followed by that code. For YouTube's own channel, whose ID is UCBR8-60-B28hp2BmDPdntcQ, the address is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUBR8-60-B28hp2BmDPdntcQ: when Vi.ki opened it signed out on Nov 11, 2026, YouTube answered with a playlist titled "Uploads from YouTube" holding 1,706 videos, and the page carried a playlist's usual Play all and Shuffle buttons. Four more letters narrow the list: UULF for long videos only, UUSH for Shorts only, UULV for live streams only.
Next: where to copy the channel ID this trick starts from, a playlist of only the videos you choose, made without signing in or line up a few videos without any playlist.
The prefixes, measured
Each row is the same channel ID with its first two letters replaced, opened at youtube.com/playlist?list= on Nov 11, 2026, signed out. The count is the number YouTube printed on the playlist page.
| Prefix | Playlist title YouTube gave | YouTube (UCBR8-60-B28hp2BmDPdntcQ) |
Lofi Girl (UCSJ4gkVC6NrvII8umztf0Ow) |
|---|---|---|---|
UU |
"Uploads from" and the channel's name | 1,706 | 510 |
UULF |
"Videos" | 202 | 125 |
UUSH |
"Short videos" | 1,497 | 358 |
UULV |
"Live streams" | 7 | 27 |
UULP |
"Popular videos" | 200 | not tested |
UUPS |
"Popular short videos" | 200 | not tested |
UUPV |
"Popular live streams" | 7 | not tested |
UUMO (made up, as a control) |
"The playlist does not exist." | none | not tested |
The three kinds add up to the whole on both channels: 202 + 1,497 + 7 = 1,706 for YouTube, and 125 + 358 + 27 = 510 for Lofi Girl. So UU is everything public the channel has uploaded, and UULF, UUSH and UULV split it the way the channel page's Videos, Shorts and Live tabs do. The two "Popular" lists stopped at 200 for a channel with far more videos, which suggests a cap; we did not test a second channel to confirm it.
Step by step
- Open the channel and copy its ID, the 24 characters starting with
UC. The channel's About panel has Share channel > Copy channel ID; for a channel of your own, YouTube Help points to Settings > Advanced settings (Find your YouTube user & channel IDs, read Nov 11, 2026). - Replace the first two letters,
UC, withUU(orUULF,UUSH,UULV). Leave the other 22 characters as they are. - Type
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=into the address bar, paste the code after it and press Enter. - Click Play all, or Shuffle for a random order.
A handle will not do: the code is built from the channel ID, not from @name.
Is this official?
Half of it. Google's developer documentation says every channel has an uploads playlist: the YouTube Data API returns its ID in the field contentDetails.relatedPlaylists.uploads, described as "The ID of the playlist that contains the channel's uploaded videos" (Channels, YouTube Data API, read Nov 11, 2026). What Google does not write down anywhere we could find is that this ID is the channel ID with UU in front, or that the UULF, UUSH, UULV, UULP, UUPS and UUPV lists exist. YouTube Help's playlist article does not mention playing a whole channel at all (Create & manage playlists, read Nov 11, 2026). Treat the plain UU list as dependable and the longer prefixes as a trick that can change without notice.
Why people go looking for it
The channel page used to do this by itself. In a Dec 3, 2024 video, Research Rocks showed a channel's page and said YouTube had earlier offered a Play all control there and had since removed it, so that only a playlist someone had made would play on continuously; the video's fix was a Chrome extension. The address above needs no extension, and it works in any browser because it is an ordinary playlist page.
What we think
We think the plain UU address will still open a channel's uploads a year from now, because Google's own API hands that playlist ID to developers, while at least one of the longer prefixes will have changed or gone.
Confidence: Likely. Check by: Nov 11, 2027.
What would prove us wrong: youtube.com/playlist?list=UUBR8-60-B28hp2BmDPdntcQ no longer showing YouTube's uploads on that day, or all six longer prefixes still answering exactly as in the table.
Sources
- Channels, YouTube Data API, Google for Developers, read Nov 11, 2026
- Find your YouTube user & channel IDs, YouTube Help, read Nov 11, 2026
- Create & manage playlists, YouTube Help, read Nov 11, 2026
- How to Play All YouTube Videos from Any Channel, Research Rocks, Dec 3, 2024 (video)
- Vi.ki's requests to youtube.com/playlist with each prefix, signed out, Nov 11, 2026
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Related
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Hidden YouTube Studio PagesYouTube Studio pages can be opened directly by address, studio.youtube.com/channel/YOUR_CHANNEL_ID/ followed by a path such as content/inspiration (saved ideas), copyright/history (copyright removal requests) or monetization/affiliate_hub (Shopping affiliate offers).
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Keyboard ShortcutsYouTube's main keyboard shortcuts on a computer are k to play or pause, j and l to jump 10 seconds, f for full screen, m to mute, c for captions, and comma and period to step frames; Shift + ? shows the full list in the player.
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Link to an Exact TimeTo share a YouTube video from a set time, click Share under the video, tick Start at, enter the time and copy the link, or add &t=90 (seconds) to the address yourself; embeds use start= and end= instead.
- Loop a VideoTo loop a YouTube video on a computer, right-click the player and click Loop; in the app, tap Settings, Additional settings, Loop video; a playlist loops with the Loop button in its playlist box.
- Open a Video's TranscriptTo open a YouTube video's transcript on a computer, click "...more" under the video to expand the description, scroll to the Transcript section and click Show transcript; it works on any video that has captions.
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Playback SpeedChange YouTube's speed in the player's Settings gear under Playback speed, from 0.25x to 2x for everyone (up to 4x with YouTube Premium), press and hold the video for 2x, or use Shift + > and Shift + < on a keyboard.
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Right-Click Twice to Copy a Video FrameOn YouTube in Chrome on a computer, pause the video, right-click it once for YouTube's menu, then right-click again for the browser's own menu, which offers Copy video frame and Save video frame as.
- See a Video's Hidden TagsYouTube hides a video's tags from viewers, but on a computer anyone can read them in the page source: open view-source: before the watch address and search for name="keywords".
See also
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Find a Channel IDFind any YouTube channel's ID on its channel page by opening the description (the About panel), then Share channel > Copy channel ID; your own is also under Settings > Advanced settings, or at youtube.com/account_advanced.
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Make a Playlist From Video IDsThe address youtube.com/watch_videos?video_ids= followed by video IDs separated by commas opens those videos as a temporary unlisted playlist, with no sign-in. In Vi.ki's test on Nov 11, 2026 it kept the first 50 IDs, and one wrong ID dropped the whole list.
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QueueYouTube's queue lines up videos to play next without stopping the current one. On a computer, choose More, Add to queue, free; on phones and tablets, More, Play next in queue or Play last in queue needs YouTube Premium. The queue disappears when the browser closes unless saved to a playlist.
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Block a Video by CountryAn ordinary YouTube channel cannot block its own video in chosen countries. The setting exists only in Studio Content Manager, the tool of networks and rights holders, and it is built for licensing, not for hiding from an audience.
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Frame by Frame with Comma and PeriodOn YouTube on a computer, pause the video, then press the period key to step one frame forward and the comma key to step one frame back.
- Get a Video's Full-Size ThumbnailAny YouTube video's thumbnail opens at img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/maxresdefault.jpg, 1280 by 720 pixels when the video has one, with hqdefault.jpg (480 by 360) as the size every video has.