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YouTube - sort the search as you want!

04/07/08 | by zveriu | Categories: On the web, Hack

YouTube - sort the search as you want and as you used to!

Are you an avid YouTube-er? Like seeing top/most viewed videos first?

Ok, so this post is for you then !

Somewhere in mid-march YouTube removed from it’s page the sort by number of views function - arrgghhh, right?! :no:

Logically, the most obvious trick they could have done is just to remove the visual rendering of the option, leaving the sorting functionality intact though. Some Google-ing and cached results and…. SURPRISE! :idea:

Here is the URL parameter to be passed in the URL for your search results so you will get sort based on number of views :!:
search_sort=video_view_count

So if you have a result page like URL:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zeitgeist

Then the sorted results will be obtained from the address URL:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zeitgeist&search_sort=video_view_count

Here is the link to some kind of script for some browsers which will enable the sorting through the push of a button in your favorite browser - userscripts