# We've a trivial question about searching YouTube.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 13, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-a-trivial-question-about-searching-youtube/791200 "2017-07-13T23:10:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-a-trivial-question-about-searching-youtube/791200/1 "2017-07-13T23:10:16Z")

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(Now we search and then select filters and then select subtitles or cc. Without subtitles or cc the results are worthless.)

Is there some way to only get subtitled or CC from the beginning of each and every search?

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-a-trivial-question-about-searching-youtube/791200/2 "2017-07-14T03:42:27Z")

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Right click your address bar in Chrome, go to Edit search engines, and click “Add” on the upper right hand side of the “Other search engines” section.

Give it a name like YouTube and a “keyword” like “yt” or “youtube” or whatever is easier to remember for you. For the URL, use:

```auto

https://www.youtube.com/results?q=%s&sp=EgIoAQ%253D%253D

```

After you save it, you can go to your address bar and type “yt blah blah blah” and it’ll search for videos with the CC filter on.

How it works…

When you turn on the CC filter, YouTube adds the “sp=EgIoAQ%253D%253D” parameter at the end. That tells it to only search for CC-enabled videos.

Adding this as a custom search engine to Chrome lets you quickly perform that search without manually toggling the setting every time.

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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-a-trivial-question-about-searching-youtube/791200/3 "2017-07-14T16:21:57Z")

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Thanks

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**Author:** ![albino\_manatee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/albino_manatee/32/2_2.png) [@albino\_manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/albino_manatee)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-a-trivial-question-about-searching-youtube/791200/4 "2017-07-16T14:46:49Z")

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is there similar command that can be utilized for high-def\*(hd)\* ?