YT Shorts to YT

"YT Shorts to YT" is a script that aims to avoid doomscrolling while watching shorts on YouTube. It works by changing the type of player that is used on the website.

Technical Details

Youtube's website has 2 kinds of players:

• Normal player The one that most of us know the most. The player is usually made for non-short videos (including the ones that are premiered) and livestreams. The player can also be used for watching shorts with a workaround. A link for a video that uses that kind of player looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= {VIDEO ID}
• Shorts player This player was recently implemented because of the launch of YouTube Shorts - a format that focuses on vertical videos with 60 seconds or less that was created in 2020 to compete with TikTok. This player can only be used to watch shorts. A link for a video that uses that kind of player looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ {VIDEO ID}

To watch a short in the normal player, the script simply checks if a video url goes to the Shorts player. If that condition is true, the URL is changed by replace the substring "shorts/" by "watch?v="

How to install?

1. You need to install Tampermonkey - An extention that allows to manage userscript code.
2. Select YT Shorts to YT.user.js in the at the "Releases" section of this repository. You can also check the file and click "Raw" to Download
3. You are redirected to a Tampermonkey's page where you can see the source code and choose to install. To install the script, click the "Install" button.
4. Voilá!