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I made a thing to make playing YouTube videos locally from your browser easier (gitlab.com)

submitted 1 year ago by danielquinn@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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The other day someone was complaining about the new ad blocker-blocker on YouTube and I mentioned that it might be fun to write a Firefox extension that would just load up yt-dlp and play the video through mpv.

It turns out, writing a Firefox extension is easy and tricking Firefox into launching yt-dlp isn't much harder (though it does require some annoying configuration on the user's end).

Anyway, if you're a Linux user, feel free to try it out. I don't know how much I'm going to pour into this, but as an exercise of "can this be done", it was pretty good for a few hours on a Friday night.

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[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

This is sweet, this exact same idea has been kicking around my head for awhile but I've never taken the initiative.

I did write a script (powershell lol), that uses yt-dlp to download all your subscription videos as they come in and sends a notification. Could easily be modified to work on linux and use ntfy or another notification service. ALso no need to scrape your subscriptions as it stays in sync with your currently subscribed channels.