# Neat little YouTube hack **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neat-little-youtube-hack/419646 "2007-09-18T19:37:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neat-little-youtube-hack/419646/1 "2007-09-18T19:37:25Z")
Thought you folks might be interested in this: It’s a way to enlarge a YouTube video to the width of your browser-window. (YouTube’s player has the “full-screen” button, but that’s often so big that it pixellates out.) You take a YouTube URL, e.g.: [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=)[VIDEO CODE] And change it to: [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/v/)[VIDEO CODE] For example, this: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/I6pOXjQLh7Y/hqdefault.jpg "Dancing at the cafe - Bande a Part (AKA Band of Outsiders)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6pOXjQLh7Y) becomes this: > **[Dancing at the cafe - Bande a Part (AKA Band of Outsiders)](https://www.youtube.com/v/I6pOXjQLh7Y)** > > The classic dancing scene from Jean-Luc Goddard's crime comedy Bande a Part. It so impressed Quentin Tarantino that he named his movie production company, "A... Essentially, you’re only loading the little Flash movie (or whatever it is), which automatically adjusts to the size of your browser. Cool, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neat-little-youtube-hack/419646/2 "2007-09-19T01:56:13Z")
What"s the dance they are doing called? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neat-little-youtube-hack/419646/3 "2007-09-19T02:00:46Z")
[QUOTE=Burrido] What"s the dance they are doing called? [/QUOTE] Really fucking stupid? ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neat-little-youtube-hack/419646/4 "2007-09-19T02:03:29Z")
Dunno man, been to the clubs lately? Seen some pretty stupid shit lately. ---
**Author:** ![Suda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@Suda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suda)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neat-little-youtube-hack/419646/5 "2007-09-19T10:56:55Z")
That is an awesome little hack. I thought I’d try cook up some javascript to do it and soon realised my javascript-fu is weak, so I looked it up and sure enough someone has had the same thought. ```auto javascript:var codeStart=window.location.href.search("watch?");window.location="http://youtube.com/v/"+window.location.href.substring(codeStart+8,codeStart+19); ``` This works great in firefox at least. Just make a new bookmark, and paste that code as the location, and hey presto. Any youtube video you’re watching you just click that bookmark and it’ll redirect you to the fullscreen version. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neat-little-youtube-hack/419646/6 "2007-09-19T11:07:42Z")
Brilliant. Thanks for the tip, **jackalope** and **Suda.**