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daviddeutsch / yt-sanegrid

YouTube abandoned the subscription grid view. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
http://daviddeutsch.github.io/yt-sanegrid/
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Ability to Watch Later videos #58

Open MegaScience opened 11 years ago

MegaScience commented 11 years ago

I was curious if the ability to Watch Later videos was possible. I fully understand to do this directly through the site would requiring logging into the users account, but my idea was bringing up am embedded player set to basically be off, but with the Watch Later button available. I know this sounds very hacky/workaround, but having to go to each user's channel or video page to do this is a bit monotonous. Sometimes, I can not watch videos for extended periods of time, and both YouTube and this list are limited in how far back they can go, so I usually mark up all my videos for Watch Later so I can get to them on my own time.

daviddeutsch commented 11 years ago

Sorry, but that won't work. I'd much rather have this in Version 2.0, where I plan to support logging into your account (or rather - using API credentials for your account).

MegaScience commented 11 years ago

Thank you, I understand. I am grateful for this site in any case. Yesterday, YouTube gave me the issue whereas the subscriptions list stopped updating, and while getting help with the issue, someone recommended the site. Even though the problem seems resolved on YouTube's site, as you know I can see many videos which YouTube refuses to show me. It's nice to be able to see the videos of my small-time friend who hasn't had time to make videos, since I noticed my feed would briefly show them and then actually remove them from the list. Ridiculous.

daviddeutsch commented 11 years ago

Yeah, I really built this because even though I mostly use my subscription feed to procrastinate, I actually take that rather seriously and dislike it being not taken seriously from the opposite side of the deal. With my list of subscriptions growing, I was first annoyed that the old view would just drop videos after a while, so that was the first strike. Second strike was not being able to take videos off the list that I didn't want to watch or some other way of filtering it. Third strike was of course when they killed the grid altogether. It was quite clear that the feed view is no replacement whatsoever and I had to build my own.

I guess even though I'm just a consumer of the site, I do like having some measure of control, so I totally get where you're coming from about just simply missing stuff from your feed - sure, you can hunt down what you're missing, but the question is - do I have to worry about the feed or not? The "new and improved" feed view from YT has me so worried that I'd rather build my own. That's also why I don't want a browser plugin to just restyle the broken feeds view as I'd still be at the mercy of whatever change they come up with next. Seems ridiculous to me. Even if they kill the API, I'd rather go rogue completely and build an auto-scraper that gets me my subscriptions than trust them with it.

Anyway - thanks for using! It's good to hear that I seem to be getting a little word of mouth. I'll continue to improve this, so feel free to recommend it further :wink: