YouTube Pro Shortcuts

Custom, productivity-focused keyboard shortcuts for YouTube.

Supercharge YouTube with WASD playback controls, quick search (Cmd+K), auto-skip ads, PiP, screenshots, and smart page navigation. YouTube Pro Shortcuts adds powerful, gaming-inspired keyboard shortcuts to YouTube so you never have to touch your mouse. ⌨️ WASD Playback Controls • A / D — Rewind or fast-forward 5 seconds • S — Play / Pause • Q / E — Volume down / up 🔍 Quick Search • Cmd+K (Mac) / Ctrl+K (Windows) — Instantly focus the search bar. Press again to jump back to the video. 📜 Smart Navigation • X — Toggle the video description (Show more / Show less) with smooth scrolling • Shift+X — Jump to the comments section and back • Shift+Q / Shift+E — Scroll up / down the page (hold to go faster) • Shift+D / Shift+→ — Next video • Shift+A / Shift+← — Previous video 🚀 Advanced Features • Enter — Toggle auto-skip ads on or off • Cmd+Shift+P — Picture-in-Picture mode • Cmd+Shift+C — Copy the video URL at the current timestamp • Cmd+Shift+S — Take a clean screenshot of the video All shortcuts are disabled while typing in search or comment fields so they never interfere with normal use. Lightweight, no permissions beyond storage, and completely open source.