YouTube hotkeys

quick hotkeys for quality, speed, time jumps, subtitles and replay (for RU, UA, EN, DE, FR, SP)

These are versions of this script where the code was updated. Show all versions.

  • v1.3.2 2025-05-02

    Added (alt/shift)+⇄ hotkeys for bigger time jumps: shift = 30 seconds, alt = 1 minute, alt+shift = 5 minutes.
    WARNING alt+⇄ hotkey overrides default browser navigation hotkey, so if you want to keep it, comment out the event.preventDefault() on line 248.

  • v1.3.1 2025-04-29
    • Reorganized Player functionality into a class
    • Fixed custom popup duplicate creation
    • Added Ukrainian language to regular expressions
  • v1.3 2025-04-27
    • Changed script execution from key press emulation to direct player access
    • Added popup to indicate speed/quality change
    • Reworked script invocation, so it hopefully always runs properly
  • v1.2 2024-12-24

    v1.2

    Catching up with YouTube interface updates:

    • 1080p Premium is excluded from selection, now shift+q selects regular 1080p
    • Updated speed selector: now takes custom speed into account, changes speed to one of the defaults
    • Added x hotkey to open subtitles menu
  • v1.1 2021-12-11

    v1.1 x hotkey for subtitles, alt+q for 480p quality, plus some readability alignments.

    v1.0 basic functionality: q, s, shift+q, ctrl+q, r, +, - hotkeys.

  • v1.0 2021-10-31