WebUser – 04 April 2018

Hooktube offers an easy waytoaccessvideos

that YouTubehas blocked

Unblock videos unavailable in theUK
Most YouTube userswill have encounteredatleast onevideo that thesiteforbids
access to,displaying themessage: “Thiscontent is notavailable in this country”.
Theblock canbedue to licensing, politicalorlegal reasons;because theuploader
haschosentolimit it to aspecific region;orbecause you’re notloggedinto
YouTube andthereare agerestrictionsonthe clip. Thebest-knownway to beat
this restrictionistouse aVPN(see ourcoverfeature in Issue443)or proxytool
such as TortodisguiseyourIP
address,but thereisaneasier
method that doesn’trequire
anysoftware. Hooktube
(hooktube.com), which
launched last year,letsyou
bypassregionalblocks andage
restrictions on YouTube using
asimpleURLtweak.
Just change theyoutubein
theweb addressofthe
blockedvideo tohooktube,
pressEnter andyou’llbetaken
to Hooktube whereyou can
watchthe contentunhindered,
andeven download it.

Jumpto thebestbitsinYouTube videos

by usingInVideo to find words

42 4-17April 2018

Printstoryboards andtranscripts
of videos
Rather than downloadingafavourite
videoto keep forposterity,why not
printapapercopy of itscontent?
That’s theconceptbehindaningenious
‘bookmarklet’calledPrint YouTube
Video,which convertsvideosinto
astoryboardofthumbnailimages
that youcan printorsave.
To getstarted,visitbit.ly/print446
anddrag thePrint YouTube Video
bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar.
Open avideo on YouTube,click the
bookmarklet andit should instantly
generateastoryboardthatvisually
summarisesthe content. The
bookmarklet convertsany length
of video,but note that theindividual

images it captures areprettysmall

andyou’ll need to enable JavaScript

in your browserfor it to work.

Alternatively, youcan print

atranscriptofall thespokentextin

avideo,which is generated from

YouTube’sautomaticsubtitles.Click the

three-dotbuttonbelowavideo and

choose ‘Opentranscript’ to displaythe

text on theright of theplayer. Highlight

anddrag thewords withyourmouse,

then copy andpastetheminto a

documentsoyou canprint the

transcript –you canremovethe

timestampsvia thesettingsmenuin

thetop-right corner.Justdon’t expect

thesubtitles to be 100%accurate!

Searchfor specific words

in videos

Rather than skimming or sittingthrough

alongYouTube videojust to gettothe

‘bestbit’orglean aspecific snippet

of information, installthe Chrome

extensionInvideo forYouTube (bit.ly/

invideo 446 ). This brillianttooladds

text-search capabilities to videosso

youcan quicklyfindindividual words,

phrasesand namesspokeninthem.

To useit, click theOpenInVideo

button belowthebottom-right corner

of thevideo player andapanelwill open

on theright that lets yousearchfor a

termthat’s spoken in thecontent.Click

aresulttojumpstraighttothe relevant

moment.You need onlyenter part of

asearchtermtofindmatchingresults.

Invideoworksbyusing YouTube’s

auto-subtitling transcripts(seeprevious

tip),soinsomecases (particularlywith

musicvideos),you mayget a“cannot

transcribe this video”message.

Skip advertswithoutcheating

creators

AdvertsthatplaybeforeYouTube videos

areanecessaryevil because without

them,manycreatorswouldn’t be able

to offertheir contentfor free.Butif

you’re tiredofsitting throughthe same

loud,annoyingads whilewaiting for

theSkipbutton to finallyappear, there

is asolution called YouTube AdAuto-

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Turn your favouriteYouTube videos into a
printablephoto storyboard

Skip adverts automaticallyrather

than manually

YouTubegeneratestranscripts of videos

that youcan copy elsewhere