As is well-known, YouTube is a good medium but it is surprisingly monolithic, difficult to use, hard to organize. This is, of course, not a coincidence. The hackers of YouTube are no idiots. Most likely, they have clear instructions to make the system inflexible so that people (you and I) keep always clicking for new videos. Their dominant term in their utility function is the maximization of clicks by the average user, in the hope that the user will become victim of some advertisement once in a while.
The inflexibility of YouTube includes:
-- inability to organize playlists in different order (say reverse chronological order)
-- impossibility to shift items from one playlist to another
-- very limited search
-- impossibility to search for playlists
However, there are some things you can get around, and here is my one-time contribution to the art of hacking: Here is how to search for playlists.
Copy and paste the following into the URL field of your browser
The inflexibility of YouTube includes:
-- inability to organize playlists in different order (say reverse chronological order)
-- impossibility to shift items from one playlist to another
-- very limited search
-- impossibility to search for playlists
However, there are some things you can get around, and here is my one-time contribution to the art of hacking: Here is how to search for playlists.
Copy and paste the following into the URL field of your browser
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/snippets?q=KEYWORD&start-index=N&max-results=M&v=2after replacing the items in yellow by what you need them to be:
KEYWORD : a search term, case-insensitiveN.B. No, this is not my thing. I got it from here.
N : start index, an arbitrary positive integer
M: number of items to be listed, an integer, 1 ≤ M ≤ 50
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