A Chrome extension that redirects YouTube Short URLs to the regular video player.
I got annoyed with YouTube's Shorts player, and I didn't want to manually modify the video URLs to load the regular player anymore.
The extension uses a naïve approach. It assumes that the short is accessed with a URL of the following format:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/<video-id>
It then replaces the URL with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<video-id>
This does not work when the Shorts page is accessed from some of YouTube's UI elements, but a page refresh should work in that case.
Feedback and/or patches that improve on this approach are welcome.
The extension is currently not available on the Chrome Web Store, it has to be installed manually.
- Save the extension to your device.
- Follow the instructions under the section Load an unpacked extension here.