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Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by nearmuse »

stephengillie wrote: post #39
nearmuse wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be easier to "make" these with semantic web. Maybe your browser would just have some generic viewer so that you would not have to make any at all.

I'm writing a small JavaScript engine that converts websites to JSON, and displays JSON as websites. Since an entire site is described in the same JSON file, the whole site is a single download, and it rebuilds pages in the browser instead of calling the server - much faster, especially on mobile. If the browser had this small engine, it could render these sites natively.

Neat. But my comment is about the exact opposite: having a standard way to represent data in place of HTML and custom formats.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by barathvutukuri »

craftyguy wrote: post #57
doomrobo wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure how much you'd benefit from it, given that you've already got a good setup, but I just made a website called HookRSSTube[0] that essentially proxies YouTube RSS feeds and replaces the video playback with HookTube[1] instead. I'd love to know if you have any comments or suggestions. [0] https://hookrsstube.com [1] https://hooktube.com

+1 for hooktube! I now use a greasemonkey script to auto-redirect all youtube.com links to hooktube instead.

Could you please share the script :)

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by barathvutukuri »

doomrobo wrote: post #47
RodgerTheGreat wrote: post #25

For some time I've been tinkering with a script which manages my own fine-grained youtube subscription preferences, periodically scrapes various pages for metadata, and then as necessary extracts videos by using the youtube-dl utility. The end result is a directory on my machine which always has a few interesting videos to watch, ad-free, tracking-free, network connection free, using my favorite full-featured video p…

Not sure how much you'd benefit from it, given that you've already got a good setup, but I just made a website called HookRSSTube[0] that essentially proxies YouTube RSS feeds and replaces the video playback with HookTube[1] instead. I'd love to know if you have any comments or suggestions. [0] https://hookrsstube.com [1] https://hooktube.com

+1 for hooktube, very useful. Now I can watch blocked videos in my company network :)

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by godot »

austenallred wrote: post #65
gnuvince wrote: post #63

I searched for "darkest dungeon" and first hits were for Ed Sheeran and One Direction. I know searching is a tricky problem, but this is ridiculously bad.

I got the same results for a completely unrelated term. Probably something hard-coded it's falling back on?

I just tried "darkest dungeon" and didn't get that, and it's the same as the ones on https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=darkest+dungeon .

Actually, I can't see why OP wouldn't just use YT's search API (they have one). I'm pretty sure that's what OP uses. So yeah, like you said, probably some hard-coded fall-back.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by godot »

nerdymanchild wrote: post #64
madamelic wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, ok. Hopefully they don't nuke my account. No scraping or mean stuff, it's all above board and using Google's APIs.

Check the ToS of their APIs. I'm somewhat certain you aren't allowed to build alternative interfaces into their content.

I'm not OP, but that would be strange -- they offer a search API and a video player API. It would mean that they offer all the tools for you to build an alternative interface and then not let you do that?

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by kristopolous »

krrrh wrote: post #49

Hijacking this thread to share other approaches to YouTube without YouTube. This site takes a YouTube URL, extracts the audio and adds a link to your personal podcast feed on huffduffer. It’s great for loading a bunch of interviews, lectures, and other things that don’t require the video into your podcast player. https://snarfed.org/2015-03-07_huffduff-video

I've been working on a "streaming music" version of youtube for about 10 years off and on (https://github.com/kristopolous/ytmix) ... it's really designed for self-hosted personal use. I use it probably an hour or two a day.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by jmadsen »

Are there any alternatives out there that let me:

1) Oauth2 into my account so I can see new postings in my subscriptions (not "the one you've been avoiding clicking for 8 weeks")

2) Minimalist dashboard that doesn't have all the "recommended for you" clutter

3) Simple search results like the one here?

4) A "show me similar" button next to vids that would let me pick out my own recommendations if I want to expand on what I'm watching, and not get signed up for all the crap their broken algos throw at me

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by madamelic »

drivers99 wrote: post #46

I'm seeing a permanent back arrow overlapping the video itself. Don't cover up the screen. At the end of the video, it still shows recommendations. Do you have any control over that? Can you set it to not show recommendations? It is missing comments. I can see why you would choose that, but I'd rather have comments (something I also miss when I watch YouTube on a Roku) and still not have recommendations because they…

>I'm seeing a permanent back arrow overlapping the video itself. Don't cover up the screen.

Removed that. Originally I wanted it to make it easy to go search more, but meh, people can use the back button. :)

>At the end of the video, it still shows recommendations. Do you have any control over that? Can you set it to not show recommendations?

Not as far as I know. And from what I've read from YouTube's ToS, it wouldn't be ok with them. (Can't disable functionality)

>It is missing comments. I can see why you would choose that, but I'd rather have comments (something I also miss when I watch YouTube on a Roku) and still not have recommendations because they lead to watching too many videos.

I'll consider adding them on dropdown. :)

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by textmode »

ravenstine wrote: post #62
textmode wrote: post #53

I have a 2-line shell script using only sed and curl (or equivalent) that obviates any need for youtube-dl, python, third party websites, etc. Unlike youtube-dl it will not download videos where the uploader is some commercial media outlet that wants to prohibit downloading.

Can you post this somewhere? Maybe a Github Gist?

As requested, see

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=textmode

Example usage: argv0 22 file

Where argv0 is the name of the script.

Where 22 is itag no. for HD mp4. 18 is itag no. for a lower quality mp4.

Will save video as file.mp4

If get HTTP 302, then retry.

If get HTTP 403, then retry or give up; video is probably commercial in nature and has restrictions.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by ashnehete »

godot wrote: post #75
nerdymanchild wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check the ToS of their APIs. I'm somewhat certain you aren't allowed to build alternative interfaces into their content.

I'm not OP, but that would be strange -- they offer a search API and a video player API. It would mean that they offer all the tools for you to build an alternative interface and then not let you do that?

True all these tools together can be used for building an alternative interface, but the company actually have APIs so that external services are able to integrate into their ecosystem. All the APIs are meant to be used together but each service can choose the API they see fit.
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