[Enhancement] Add video title and channel to hash of /watch? links

[mk-pmb]

Is your enhancement request related to a problem? Please describe. For the past few weeks, my favorite instances often have trouble generating the video details page because of "Please sign in" / "This helps to protect […]". My usual procedure is:

• Start with the popular feed or a search results page or a playlist.
• Scan it top to bottom and open the interesting links in new tabs.
• Copy all tab titles and URLs to my downloader's queue.
• Group and sort them in the queue editor.

However, now that all the tab titles are just "Error", that last step needs manual cross-checking and thus has become very tedious.

Describe the solution you'd like Since the list pages are still able to show title and channel, let's append a length-limited, URL-encoded version of both as a hash (#) part of the link URL. Example: /watch?v=cUBz04LlLVk could become /watch?chan=Veritasium&v=cUBz04LlLVk#title=Seeing+Inside+A+Thermite+Reaction (My donwload queue editor can auto-parse that on paste.)

As an optional next step, we could even use that to improve the in-browser tab title and error page display for users who have JavaScript enabled. However, that is not a priority for me.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Have my browser monkey-patch the initial page
• Set up a proper RSS client

Additional context

[unixfox]

Not entirely sure if we want to differ from how youtube watch page URL works.

Since some people may just change the invidious domain by www.youtube.com to go to youtube. They will then send these additionnal parameters that youtube servers doesn't know about.

This should be relatively harmless but it's one thing that may distinguish the user from the others if there are some unknown parameters in the URL.

I don't have an exact opinion on this. Why not but I feel like this could have bad consequences that we don't know about. Maybe this could be configurable with a parameter.

Anyway sounds like a pretty simple task to do in crystal if you want to try. As maintainers we will never have the time to work on this, just so you know.

[mk-pmb]

As maintainers we will never have the time to work on this, just so you know.

Thanks for clarifying that! Then I'll try and make it a hidden feature, activated by a secret cookie, as part of #2837.