Show HN: An Alternative Web Interface for YouTube
essentialyoutube.com
essentialyoutube.com
[1] https://github.com/boramalper/Essential-YouTube/blob/master/...
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/templ...
Better organization of the playlists and a feature to search across my account for playlist and the videos in them would be another amazingly important feature that I want.
Went on a rant there. But I love youtube, except the interface is such a huge turn off that it's quite annoying. I've been meaning to make an alternative UI for it. It's been on the back-burner in my ideas.txt for quite a while. So I just brain-dumped the most immediate complaints I had.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/switcheroo-redirec...
Essential YouTube is an experiment to improve user experience by stripping the redundant away and focusing on the essentials.
Features: Disruption-free Search The video keeps playing even while you are searching. Instant Search See the results as you are typing. Queuing Queue videos as you like to watch them consecutively. Looping Loop a video forever. Hassle-free Video annotations are disabled by default. Also, no Autoplay, but the videos you want to play. Client-side There are no servers in-between you and YouTube; everything is done on your computer and it's open source. As private as it could be.
Obvious it might sound, but please keep in mind that Essential YouTube is an experiment, and as pleasing as it might be to use, it's not intended to be a replacement for everyday use. Missing functionality is not a bug, it's a feature.
When I do a search, the audio of the video keeps playing, and there is a working seek bar at the top, but the video itself vanishes. Not sure if this is intentional, but I assume not based on the description (Firefox 47 on OS X).
Maybe I could do something like in YouTube's iOS wpp where video goes to down-right corner, but I thought I would keep it simple.
Just having the audio I can easily do it right now by doing the search in another tab while having the video playing in the background.
Anyway, I like the idea and what you did, even if it is still an early project.
Please make a YouTube Red for kids. I love YouTube Kids, but it still has ads. I will gladly pay for you $/month for this.
I don't watch Youtube, buy my kids never stop.
javascript:(function() { var url = 'http://essentialyoutube.com/#'; var videoId = ''; var vars = window.location.search.substring(1).split("&"); for (var i=0;i<vars.length;i++) { var pair = vars[i].split("="); if(pair[0] == 'v') { videoId = pair[1]; break; }} if (!videoId) { return; } window.location = url + videoId; })();
If anyone is interested, it's here:
Or, has someone already done this and I'm not aware?
And if they can't keep the core of their service working, is it any wonder that they screw up an app that they probably aren't focusing that many resources on?
Is this allowed by Google?
There is something called Terms Of Service. Just because you use an API it doesn't mean you can do anything with it. It's important to read them, because they can get you into legal troubles if you don't comply with these terms.
You should be really careful with this "YOLO" mindset, especially if you are a professional developer.
Another violation, that I became aware of later on too, is hiding the player during searching. According to the ToS section "Prohibitions" entry 14, the player must be bigger than or equal to the minimum video player size, which is 200x200 pixels.