20+ Greasemonkey Scripts for Improving Your YouTube Experience  

Odds are if you access the Internet, you visit YouTube. But aren’t there some things you’d like to change about it? Maybe stopping the autoplay feature or only finding HD clips? Well, this collection of over 20 Greasemonkey scripts can completely change your user experience at the popular video sharing site!

What are your favorite Greasemonkey scripts for YouTube?

Scripts

BetterTube - With support for over 50 sites, this script will allow you to see embed-disabled videos, download to various services, and more.

Coralized-YouTube - Uses the Coral Content Distribution Network to cache videos and speed up their loading on your system.

Download ANY Video from YouTube - This will add a link to any YouTube page allowing you to download the video as an MP4 file.

Loopy for YouTube - Adds a button below a video that lets you loop the video as many times as you like, so it’s perfect for that infectious song you can’t get out of your head.

Play YouTube videos in full screen auto - This script will automatically open YouTube videos into full screen mode, completely bypassing the stand alone page.

Thumbs2Links - Allows you to click on “Get direct links!” from any video index page and begin downloading all of those videos without having to go to individual pages.

Video Focus - Allows you to watch videos without the distractions of chats, comments, ads and so on, while also giving you the ability to resize videos, customize the background color, center the video on the page and more. Works with dozens of different video sites.

Videoembed - Videoembed works with over 40 video sharing sites so that if you are on a page with a link to their videos, it will automatically bring up the video on the page you are viewing as if it was embedded. Saves you the time and bother of going to YouTube just to get Rick Rolled.

YousableTubeFix - A good all-in-one script that blocks ads from the sections you want, lets you download videos into several formats, automatically expand the “More” section, see all comments at once and more.

YouTube Alternate Video Player - Replaces the standard YouTube flash player with the FlowPlayer player.

YouTube better embed - Cleans up the embed code for YouTube videos to be used on other sites.

YouTube Cleaner - Helps you clean up the appearance of the YouTube video pages by removing the comments, related videos, promoted videos, sharing information and footer. Also allows you to restore them instantly if you should choose to do so.

YouTube Enhancer - Assists with downloading videos you wish to keep, giving you the ability to buffer with autoplay turned off, rollover previews and several media controller options.

YouTube Googler - YouTube Googler allows you to have more control over how a YouTube page is presented to you. You can resize the video, prevent autoplay, and reorder items in the sidebar.

YouTube HD Suite - Adds icons to your YouTube searches to show you which videos are available as HD and MP4, and then provides you with links inside each for downloading in the quality you want.

YouTube HQ + 720p - This script will seek out the highest quality version of a video and load it via Ajax so that there is no need for the whole page to reload. Also adds in the ability to turn autoplay on and off, change the video player color and so on.

YouTube “Lights Out” - Gives you a light bulb icon so you can turn off the “lights” and darken the background for easier enjoyment of your video.

YouTube Lyrics - This handy little script can search up to 11 sites for the lyrics to the song you are watching a video of. Words are added in a box in the YouTube sidebar under the video information.

YouTube Prevent Autoplay - While several other scripts have the ability to turn off the autoplay feature, if that is the only feature you want, this is the script for you.

YouTube - Previews, click-to-play, download, no flash, 16:9 - Gives you previews for three different sections of the video, uses alternate video player for higher quality clips, adds a download button and more.

YouTubr - Allows you to watch a YouTube video associated with a Flickr image right on the Flickr page.