Firefox Advanced Youtube Search Add-on - Sort Criteria

The following extension adds a menu item to the right-click menu that enables you to search for the selected text with specified sort criteria - Relevance, Upload Date, View Count, Rating.

Create a folder named search_youtube_sort and add the following manifest.json and search_youtube_sort.js files to this folder.

	browser.contextMenus.create({
	id: "search-youtube-relevance",
	title: "Relevance",
	contexts: ["selection"]
	});
	browser.contextMenus.create({
	id: "search-youtube-upload-date",
	title: "Upload Date",
	contexts: ["selection"]
	});
	browser.contextMenus.create({
	id: "search-youtube-view-count",
	title: "View Count",
	contexts: ["selection"]
	});
	browser.contextMenus.create({
	id: "search-youtube-rating",
	title: "Rating",
	contexts: ["selection"]
	});
	browser.contextMenus.onClicked.addListener(function(info, tab) {
	if(info.menuItemId == "search-youtube-relevance"){
	var searchYoutube = "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=" + info.selectionText;
	browser.tabs.create({url: searchYoutube});
	}
	else if(info.menuItemId == "search-youtube-upload-date"){
	var searchYoutube = "https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=CAI%253D&search_query=" + info.selectionText;
	browser.tabs.create({url: searchYoutube});
	}
	else if(info.menuItemId == "search-youtube-view-count"){
	var searchYoutube = "https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=CAMSAhAB&search_query=" + info.selectionText;
	browser.tabs.create({url: searchYoutube});
	}
	else if(info.menuItemId == "search-youtube-rating"){
	var searchYoutube = "https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=CAESAhAB&search_query=" + info.selectionText;
	browser.tabs.create({url: searchYoutube});
	}
	});

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	{
	"manifest_version": 2,
	"name": "Search Youtube",
	"version": "1.0",
	"description": "Searches Youtube for the Selected Text with Specified Sort Criteria.",
	"permissions": ["contextMenus", "activeTab"],
	"background": {
	"scripts": ["search_youtube_sort.js"]
	}
	}

view raw manifest.json hosted with ❤ by GitHub

Go to about:debugging in Firefox and click Load Temporary Add-on and load the manifest.json file. Then right-click on the selected text on a webpage and choose the sort criteria to search in Youtube.