Show HN: YouTube Player App in the Browser

#1

Post by 8chanAnon » Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 3:53 PM UTC

The app bypasses ads and age-gating. Very fast.

This is just a scaled-down sample taken from a larger project.

For more information: https://8chananon.github.io

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Re: Show HN: YouTube Player App in the Browser

#2

Post by 8chanAnon » Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 3:57 PM UTC

Hmm. The title was supposed to be "YouTube Player app in your browser".

Why was the word "your" replaced with "the"?

Re: Show HN: YouTube Player App in the Browser

#3

Post by retrocryptid » Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 4:37 PM UTC

doesn't work for me: mobile firefox on android. just gives me an error.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Player App in the Browser

#4

Post by 8chanAnon » Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 4:43 PM UTC

retrocryptid wrote: post #3

doesn't work for me: mobile firefox on android. just gives me an error.

I have no idea what the potential compatibility issues might be with mobile. This has only been tested on PC. Any way to provide debugging info?

Re: Show HN: YouTube Player App in the Browser

#5

Post by 8chanAnon » Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 5:44 PM UTC

retrocryptid wrote: post #3

doesn't work for me: mobile firefox on android. just gives me an error.

I have information that Youtube is redirecting from "www.youtube.com" to "m.youtube.com" when it detects a mobile user agent. The page data that is returned appears to be incompatible with the app's parsing code.

Will figure this out.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Player App in the Browser

#6

Post by 8chanAnon » Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 5:53 PM UTC

Youtube just changed their code. The app is not currently working. Coincidence?

I might have to wait a bit to see what else gets changed.

Sorry about that.

Update: Fixed! Will keep an eye on it.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Player App in the Browser

#7

Post by 8chanAnon » Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 6:45 PM UTC

retrocryptid wrote: post #3

doesn't work for me: mobile firefox on android. just gives me an error.

I've updated the app to remove the user agent string so that the link will not redirect to "m.youtube.com". I hope that's all that's needed to fix this.