Free YouTube Tools
Small, free utilities for YouTube: no login, no API keys, no downloads. Built by the team behind Channel Surfer, the app that plays YouTube like cable TV.
YouTube Playlist Length CalculatorNEW
Paste a playlist link to get its total runtime, video count, average video length, and how long it takes at 1.25×–2× playback speed. Works on playlists with thousands of videos.
YouTube Channel ID Finder
Turn any channel URL, @handle, or custom link into the channel's permanent UC… ID, the identifier APIs, RSS feeds, and most YouTube tools ask for.
YouTube RSS Feed Generator
Build the RSS feed URL for any YouTube channel or playlist, so new uploads land in your feed reader instead of the YouTube algorithm.
Random YouTube Video Generator
YouTube roulette: press the button and get a random real video from the channels people add to Channel Surfer. Great for when you don't know what to watch.
Video to ASCII Converter
Play any video as live ASCII art in your browser. Pure client-side, endlessly pointless, strangely mesmerizing.
Why these are free
We build Channel Surfer, a free web app that turns YouTube channels, playlists, and your subscriptions into a lean-back, auto-playing cable-TV experience. These utilities solve the small YouTube problems we kept hitting along the way, so we polished them up and published them. If they save you a few minutes, come watch something. That’s the whole deal.