How to Find Your Most-Viewed Video on Google Maps

[PrasadVR]

How to Find Your Most-Viewed Video on Google Maps

Hello Local Guides,

To help update the Star Video data on the Top 100 Leaderboard System, we need to find our most-viewed video (i.e., star video) on Google Maps. This is similar to finding your star photo.
I’d like to share some tips from my own experience on this. I hope this helps you find your star video. Knowing how to find your star video is important if you are or want to participate on the star video leaderboards.

Simple Steps on a Computer (Using Chrome)

1. Open your contributions on Google Maps and click on the “Photos” tab.
2. Click the “Sort by views” option.
3. Press Control + F on your keyboard to open the Search bar.
4. Type “0:” into the Search bar.
5. Scroll down the photos.
6. Place the cursor next to 0: in the Search bar, and press Enter.
7. The Search bar will display the number of videos on the page (for example, “1/27” indicates that you are viewing the first video out of 27, which is the most viewed).
8. The video with the most views will be highlighted on your screen. That is your star video

Cheers!
@PrasadVR

[WilfriedB]

A great description @PrasadVR (although, I don’t make videos).

I tag @gncnpk. His great user script A tool for filtering edits on Google Maps by status and type has an “Auto Load” function, which not scrolls down edit contributions, but also reviews and photos. I bet, he might be able to create another tool which is able to filter the videos …?

[MortenCopenhagen]

How far down are you proposing us to scroll down in step 5, @PrasadVR

[TerryPG]

Thanks @PrasadVR well written, I will try this again, it did not work last time. I think it was operator error.

[gncnpk]

Thanks @WilfriedB for tagging me, what would be some good filter options? I might look into it

[PrasadVR]

@MortenCopenhagen

How far down are you proposing us to scroll down in step 5

@MortenCopenhagen, Thanks for reading my topic. I like to place my cursor on the scroll bar and press Command + down arrow once. When I do this, the search bar shows ‘1/6’.

[PrasadVR]

@WilfriedB

A great description

Thank you for your kind words! @WilfriedB

[PrasadVR]

@TerryPG

Thanks @PrasadVR well written, I will try this again, it did not work last time.

@TerryPG Thanks for reading my topic. Please share your experiences.

[WilfriedB]

@gncnpk I meant, ignore photos and show only the videos. I don’t know, if photos and video have a different div class, if not, as @PrasadVR explained, the videos show their length in the form mm:ss with mm normally being 00.

[gncnpk]

I’ll give it a try! Is there a profile that has videos as part of their contributions? I don’t have any videos so I can’t test it on myself

[gncnpk]

Hey @WilfriedB and @PrasadVR, I was able to build a quick one-liner that automatically hides photos and only shows videos

Tested it on PrasadVR’s photo contributions:

Here’s the code:

Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName(“m6QErb XiKgde “)[3].children).forEach((e) => {
let hasVideo = Boolean(e.querySelector(”.xUc6Hf[aria-label=Video]”))
if (!hasVideo) {
e.style = “display: none”
}
})

I’m debating if I should make a new user script or add the feature to Enhanced Edits (there’s a lot of code)

[JustJake]

@gncnpk

I was able to build a quick one-liner that automatically hides photos and only shows videos

You’re a magician. Who do we talk to to get you on the Maps UI team?!?

[Annaelisa]

Danke @PrasadVR für diese Erklärung der Video Suche auf dem PC.
Nur wir sollten die nicht vergessen die dafür das Smartphone verwenden.
Ich kenne zum Glück meine ganzen Videos und finde meinen Star auch sehr schnell.

[gncnpk]

Haha, thank you! I made a userscript for filtering through photos now

Auto-load works really well on photos/videos, it took around 7 seconds for 100+ posts and 300+ photos.

Should hopefully make it a lot easier to find your most viewed videos

I’ll release the userscript later today!

Thanks @PrasadVR and @WilfriedB for the inspiration!

[gncnpk]

I added the ability to go to your most viewed photo/video as well:

EDIT: You can also filter by place now:

[tony_b]

@PrasadVR

• Place the cursor next to 0: in the Search bar, and press Enter.
• The Search bar will display the number of videos on the page (for example, “1/27” indicates that you are viewing the first video out of 27, which is the most viewed).

Excellent tutorial @PrasadVR. This is what I do at the end of every month to find my Leaderboard information for @AdamGT.

@MortenCopenhagen

How far down are you proposing us to scroll down in step 5

It depends a bit on how long you were doing Photos before you started Videos @MortenCopenhagen, and what is the size of the gap between your most viewed photo and your most viewed video. In my case, after sorting the list by views, my #1 photo is 6 years old with 2,137,896 views, and I find my top video which is 14 months old in the #12 position with 360,192 views.

So when I drag the scroll bar down once I don’t find any videos, but when I drag it a second time I get 29 out of my 191 videos. Twice during each month, I actually drag it all the way down to get progress information to fill my video tracking spreadsheet.

[AdamGT]

Well done @PrasadVR for the nice, simple and straightforward explanation. The work of @gncnpk is also very helpful in bridging the gap with the functionality that Maps provides and that which Local Guides need. Well done Gavin.

[gncnpk]

I made a post for the userscript: A tool that makes filtering photo/video contributions easier - Google Maps tips & tricks - Local Guides Connect

[gncnpk]

Thank you @AdamGT!

[ShailendraOjha]

Ohh fantastic @PrasadVR i try to this tips to my laptop then we discussed dear. By the way dear i try simply on my mobile this type

Discription:- Simply open to Photo contribution of profile page then open to most view photo icon & then found my highest view photo & video
Anyway thanks dear i try my laptop.