Open Marshall-Brooks opened 9 years ago
I don't think this is possible anymore via javascript. From what I have seen in the other youtube download add-ons they no longer show the file-size, I suspect youtube changed the http settings to deny the access to the content-length (file size) header. The only way this can be achieved is by using a 3rd party access which can bypass that limitation and return the sizes, such as a php script.
Okay - that makes sense. It was a useful feature - thanks at least for looking into it and responding!!!
@Tiger-Heli Just discovered a way that it can be done due to the freedom of the add-on itself (greasemonkey, for example) which allows a script to access the data the browser received and interpret it fully, in essence it bypasses cross-domain restrictions.
@YePpHa If you are interested and if you didn't know this already, the feature in greasemonkey that makes this possible is http://wiki.greasespot.net/GM_xmlhttpRequest So there's most likely also a feature in the firefox add-on interface that allows for the same objective.
I didn't follow any of that except that a future build of YTC "might" be able to re-enable this, but then, that's good enough for me.
Thanks!
@Tiger-Heli It's totally doable, I have been testing it and works really well for what you requested. I am sure YePpHa will implement this, but not before having a stable version ready for release when the most important stuff is polished.
I discovered YouTubeCenter after YouTubeOptions went support-based.
One nice thing with YTO was file size on the download menu - for instance - I might see:
MP4 1280x760 - 45M 640x480 - 24M FLV 320x240 - 5M
This made it easy to evaluate file size when selecting a download option.
With YTC, the only option I know is the start the download and then see how big the file is - then start a download at a different resolution and see how big that file is.