Redirect YouTube channel's home page
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- Name
Piotr Stojanow
- @piotrstojanow
I find a YouTube channel’s “home”/“featured” page useless. Almost always I want to see the most recent videos of a channel. For this reason I created the following userscript (GitHub) to redirect directly to the /videos
tab:
(function () {
const excludedPaths = ['/community', '/live', '/playlists', '/podcasts', '/shorts', '/streams'];
const currentPath = window.location.pathname;
const channelMatch = currentPath.match(/^\/@([^/]+)/);
if (channelMatch) {
const channelName = channelMatch[1];
const shouldRedirect = !excludedPaths.some(path => currentPath.startsWith(`/@${channelName}${path}`));
if (shouldRedirect && !currentPath.endsWith('/videos') || currentPath.endsWith('/featured')) {
window.location.href = `https://www.youtube.com/@${channelName}/videos`;
}
}
})();
The script triggers when you visit any channel e.g. youtube.com/@channelname
or youtube.com/@channelname/featured
. It will not redirect from the following paths: '/community'
, '/live'
, '/playlists'
, '/podcasts'
, '/shorts'
, '/streams'
.