How to automatically repeat YouTube videos

Updated: 02/01/2021 by Computer Hope
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On a desktop or laptop computer, YouTube lets you automatically repeat any video you're currently watching. Additionally, there are free, third-party services that assist you with repeating videos. The following steps will teach you how to put any YouTube video on repeat.

Loop a video in YouTube

YouTube now lets you loop, or automatically repeat, any video by right-clicking the video or play button and selecting the Loop option from the drop-down menu.

Option to loop a video in YouTube video right-click menu.

How to put a YouTube video on repeat

First, browse to the video you want to repeat. Then, edit the URL (uniform resource locator) in the browser address bar per the instructions below.

For this example, we are using the following URL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=dD40VXFkusw

Editing steps

  1. Remove everything in front of youtube in the URL. In the example above, "https://www." is the part to delete.
  2. After youtube, type repeat to make the URL look like the one shown below, and then press Enter.
youtuberepeat.com/watch/?v=dD40VXFkusw
  1. After pressing Enter, your browser opens a page with a URL similar to the one shown here: https://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=dD40VXFkusw
  2. The ListenOnRepeat page repeats the YouTube video until it is closed.
Tip

This page also has a counter to let you know how many times the video was repeated.