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Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by idle_zealot »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #59

What I've wanted for a while now is a browser extension that adds a button on youtube video pages, where you click on it and it does yt-dlp downloading but saves it to something like ipfs and posts it to some free video site for indexing. Basically, there should be a video indexing/search/discovery protocol (don't care if it's still http) where random people can submit metadata and a link to a distributed content-add…

What you're describing is a piracy platform. That makes it pretty tricky to get off the ground, with regards to funding and outreach.

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by zeroq »

samstave wrote: post #15

Wonderful! (Also, to all the other posters who have done the same for themselves) -- I have been mentally building a UX I want out of YT over the last few weeks. What I want to do is have it go through all my history and categorize it and give me a local page and sqlite3 of my browsing hist with various meta-data.. My YT experience has gotten so poor, that even browsing which channels I am sub'd to and finding newer…

I remember a project from some 20 years ago that acted as a proxy and kept a local copy of every single page you visited. I don't remember any details other that you could access that app and search through the history based on time, urls, page titles and content separately.

I believe this is one area where current AI could really shine.

For instance I have a large collection of links about the stuff I care or one I use as one-line answers to different questions (e.g. a friend is taking part in a hackathon and needs a color palette to display some statistical data - in my collection I exactly that along with 20 page long explanation on why these particular colors were chosen if one wish to know).

I keep them in a long markdown file I can somehow navigate by using tags, hierarchy and short descriptions but it gets clunky. Having youtube links doesn't help.

Would be nice to have a tool that would be able to get transcription, distil it to a short summary and maybe you could even ask direct questions about the contents.

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by nickthegreek »

ss64 wrote: post #54

"wanted to get back my chronological feed, instead of a "algorithmically curated" one" The 'Subscriptions' link at the top left of the Youtube home page only shows the things you subscribed to, just bookmark that.

Along with so many shorts. So many. Going from Smarttube back to the official app and it just plain sucks.

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by nickthegreek »

zaruvi wrote: post #12

As a user of a Firefox-based browser, YouTube's performance really is hit or miss. Sometimes it's ok, other times it's barely useable. These days I simply queue up videos in mpv. It is much lighter on the resources, and also provides a nice cache that makes seeking through videos a breeze. I can open a link straight in mpv using a very nice system[1]. Once I have an mpv instance open I simply drag links on top of it…

I never have yt issues in FF. Do you have addons that are yt related?

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by nyanpasu64 »

agumonkey wrote: post #38

I wonder how many front/proxies exists: - invidious what else ?

There's Piped but that keeps running into "IOS player response is not valid" error. (I don't know if my Invidious instance works either, I shut it down because of errors.)

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by jv22222 »

This is monetizable for parents (or at least, highly needed). YouTube is terrible for child behavior as there are so many pranks and people screaming etc (in kids content) but there are a select few YouTubers who are really good for kids. For example our 10yo does well with: ZebraGamer, Half Asleep Chris, Mark Rober, Brick Experiment Channel, Ants Canada, etc. We have it locked down via safe app but it would be great to have this for the full home network with channels buttoned down.
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