A simple trick to view YouTube's restricted videos

Sometimes we come across some YouTube videos which have some kind of regional or other restrictions imposed on it and makes us unable to watch it. These restrictions sometimes demands the user to log in to continue further and sometimes video remains inaccessible even after getting logged in.

In this post I am going to describe a very very simple trick which one can use to watch any kind of restricted YouTube video very easily. Basically we are going to take advantage of YouTube API and going to embed the desired video outside the restricted domain (just ignore if this statement sounds alien to you :p).

So to access the restricted video you just have to make a little change in the video's URL (the link which appears in browser's address bar, when you open the video; see picture below), and you are good to go.

As you will notice that the video link would be some thing like
www.youtube.com/watch?v=<video_code>
just make a little modification and change the link to
www.youtube.com/v/<video_code>
and you are done (yes as simple as this!!). Just copy back this modified URL in your browser's address bar and you will be able to view any video which was restricted earlier.