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DeivAstra / piped-watch

Redirect YouTube videos to Piped*, an alternative frontend.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/piped-watch/nhajdicnhahncdcfjahgoabikbbemocl
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[Bug] Not Working on Vivaldi #1

Open moriel5 opened 1 year ago

moriel5 commented 1 year ago

OS: Linux (Solus) Kernel: 6.5.7 Browser: Vivaldi 6.4.3152.3 Extension Version: 1.1

First of all, thank you very much for making this extension, ever since the official Piped Redirects extension was automatically delisted from the Chrome Webstore without warning or any way given to Kavin to rectify anything or even contact anyone.

Now, for the issue: When attempting to open YouTube, whether by typing in "youtube.com" or "youtu.be" (with or without either "http://" or "https://", or by using the DuckDuckGo !Bang "!yt", the query is not redirected at all, and I am still directed to the official YouTube website.

DeivAstra commented 1 year ago

Hello, thanks for feedback. The extension does not redirect "short" urls like you mentioned. There is redirects when url matches ||youtube.com/channel/ or ||youtube.com/watch?*v=. I dont think that the extension should block to open youtube site directly.

moriel5 commented 1 year ago

They certainly makes sense, however it saves me a lot of time when typing manually (or searching via DuckDuckGo's !Bang commands), so I personally think that it would be nice to have the option (something I believe I had asked Kavin about, however he hadn't updated his GitHub repository for the extension since a long time ago, presumably since the Piped codebase has a higher priority).

I am also looking at Piped as a solution for underpowered PCs (such as an old deChromed Bay Trail Chromebook, for example, which cannot handle VP9 at over 480p, and with the official YouTube website, cannot handle even MP4 at over 240p, but with Piped it can handle 720p60 and 1080p30 just fine, and can mostly handle 1080p60), which is why this is so important.

DeivAstra commented 1 year ago

Right I understand that you want just redirect from youtube main page url to main page url of selected Piped site? For example: youtube.com -> piped.video

moriel5 commented 1 year ago

Also that, however I would like to have an option to redirect everything possible from YouTube URLs to a selected Piped instance URL, with a button to enable/disable redirection (I could always just disable or enable the extension, however I think that not everyone would be willing to do that each time they want to found the redirection).