Testing

blab's testing suite

Helpful Bookmarks

Force Mobile

http://m.youtube.com/?app=m&persist_app=1

Force Desktop

https://youtube.com/?app=desktop&persist_app=1

Force new compact description + expanded recommendation layout

youtube.com#%#//scriptlet('set-constant', 'yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_grid', 'true')
youtube.com#%#//scriptlet('set-constant', 'yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_grid_auto_open_playlist', 'true')

Test Case Videos

Video with consistent pre-roll ads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-L5EMXBkqo

YouTube Clip

https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxeLPGsmKnMdm46DGml_4wd2dpAOIFJ65l

Playlist with intros on every video

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAbMhAYRuCUhawCEV2oXZGrienoKTN16X

Channel Trailers:

You have to not be subscribed to a channel to see channel trailers

Channels I like that have extremely low subscriber counts & you are unlikely to be subscribed to

https://www.youtube.com/c/Hummeldon

https://www.youtube.com/c/KidLeavesStoop

Anchor as t=:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ#t=0m10s

Embedded playlists

/videoseries/

https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PL8mG-RkN2uTw1QQc6K3Z-eOhvZ31diUh8

/playlist

https://www.youtube.com/embed/playlist?list=PL8mG-RkN2uTw1QQc6K3Z-eOhvZ31diUh8

/watch?video= &list

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buLjE-szDTQ&list=PL8mG-RkN2uTw1QQc6K3Z-eOhvZ31diUh8

/videoid ?list

https://www.youtube.com/embed/buLjE-szDTQ?list=PL8mG-RkN2uTw1QQc6K3Z-eOhvZ31diUh8

Embedded Videos

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aLXiLRuCqvE?wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=1&fs=1&enablejsapi=0&theme=light

List of embed parameters

Glitched Video Duration

https://sb.ltn.fi/video/CLJEIvsY9Qs/ Duration displayed in search results 1:26; Duration in player 0:08.481

Glitched Preview Bar

https://sb.ltn.fi/video/04aNA5rLXEk/ For example see the preview vs the actual video shortly before the Self Promo segment starting at 1:00:14

Post-Upload Video Edit

https://sb.ltn.fi/video/THxkY59_xko/


version	duration	approx time
original	0:16:18.28	2022-10-11 12:59:59 - 2022-10-13 02:19:04
first edit	0:16:18.30	2022-10-14 17:48:04 -
second spotted edit	16:18.281	2022-12-11 21:09:57 -

Test Users

Test User

950e09c3ca8360b6c5ad0d6bc3ab3ac6d79b9111b91e250ce7b53ea022504e0c

Test Segment

8f411c15023c5734b16cccda230ace4082f8d197111d1c0d0b4a8512bac92d336

(This was originally the user + segment for the sb-status server to test response time of votes)

Videos For Testing

Private Test video by mchangrh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuibAax0VD8

Demo Videos

Nanobyte's test video with pre-segmented skips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLXiLRuCqvE

Interesting cases of videos

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