YouTube

Pages it works on

Open any channel and pick a tab. Both work the same way, and both need the Latest chip selected rather than Popular or Oldest.

• The Videos tab on any channel.
• The Shorts tab on any channel.

What you can sort by

Views, likes, outlier score and oldest. YouTube doesn't publish comment counts in the data the channel page loads, so there's no comment sort.

Date ranges work on both tabs, with the same presets and Custom option as everywhere else.

Richer exports

YouTube exports carry more per row than the other platforms, because the channel page hands over more. Alongside the channel, link, publish date, views and likes you get duration, category, title and description. Exporting your data lists every column.

That makes YouTube the easiest platform to turn into a research spreadsheet: a full description field means the hook, the links and the tags are all searchable once the sheet exists.

No downloads here

YouTube is the one platform that doesn't allow extensions to save videos, and an extension that ignores that gets pulled from the Chrome Web Store. So Sort Feed doesn't offer a download on YouTube, and that isn't going to change.

Transcription is off here for the same reason: it needs the audio, and getting the audio means getting the video. Sorting, filtering and exporting are unaffected, which is where most of the research happens anyway.

With nothing to switch on or off, there's no gear in the extension header on YouTube and no buttons appear on videos while you browse. There's no player either, so clicking a sorted video opens it on YouTube in a new tab.

Select still works

Select mode is on the banner like everywhere else. Tick the videos you want, then export only those to Google Sheets, Excel, CSV or JSON. On YouTube that's free, since there's no transcription behind it.

Outlier score works on both tabs and is the sort worth trying first on a large channel.