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81 lines
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<h1 align="center">Browser Extension for Tube Archivist</h1>
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<div align="center">
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<a href="https://www.tilefy.me" target="_blank"><img src="https://tiles.tilefy.me/t/tubearchivist-firefox.png" alt="tubearchivist-firefox" title="TA Companion Firefox users" height="50" width="190"/></a>
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<a href="https://www.tilefy.me" target="_blank"><img src="https://tiles.tilefy.me/t/tubearchivist-chrome.png" alt="tubearchivist-chrome" title="TA Companion Chrome users" height="50" width="190"/></a>
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</div>
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## Core Functionality
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This is a browser extension to bridge YouTube with [Tube Archivist](https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist), your self hosted YouTube media server.
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- Add your Tube Archivist connection details in the addon popup.
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- On YouTube video pages, inject a download button to download that video and a subscribe button to subscribe to that channel.
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- On YouTube channel pages, inject a button to subscribe to the channel or download the complete channel.
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- Throughout most places, hover over the top left corner of a video thumbnail to reveal a download button for that video.
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- Sync your cookies for yt-dlp.
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## Screenshots
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Popup to enter your connection details.
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Button injected on video page to download the video or subscribe to the channel.
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Download button injected showing when hovering over top left corned of thumbnail
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Channel button injected to subscribe or download whole channel, video download button showing when hovering over topleft corner of thumbnail.
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<br>
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## Install
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- Firefox: The addon is available on the [Extension store](https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/tubearchivist-companion/).
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- Chrome: The addon is available on the [Chrome Web Store](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tubearchivist-companion/jjnkmicfnfojkkgobdfeieblocadmcie).
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## Update
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After a new release here on GitHub, you'll get updates automatically in your browser. Due to the verification process, for Firefox this usually takes 1-2 hours, for Chrome 2-3 days.
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## Permissions
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- **Access your data for www.youtube.com**: Needed to inject download and subscribe buttons directly into the page.
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- **Storage**: Needed to store your connection details.
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- **Cookie**: Needed to read your cookies for youtube.com to access restricted videos.
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## Setup
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- **URL**: This is where your Tube Archivist instance is located. Can be a host name or an IP address. Add the port if needed at the end, e.g. `:8000`.
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- **API key**: You can find your API key on the settings page of your Tube Archivist instance.
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A green checkmark will appear next to the *Save* button if your connection is working.
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## Options
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- **Sync YouTube cookies**: Send your cookies to TubeArchivist to use for yt-dlp requests.
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## Test this extension
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Use the correct manifest file for your browser. Either rename the browser specific file to `manifest.json` before loading the addon or symlink it to the correct location, e.g. `ln -s manifest-firefox.json manifest.json`.
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- Firefox
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- Open `about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox`
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- Click on *Load Temporary Add-on*
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- Select the *manifest.json* file to load the addon.
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- You can *inspect* background.js by lunching the debug tools from there.
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- Chrome / Chromium
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- Open `chrome://extensions/`
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- Toggle *Developer mode* on top right
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- Click on *Load unpacked*
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- Open the folder containing the *manifest.json* file.
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- Click on *Service Worker* to open the dev tools at background.js.
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## Compatibility
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- Verify that you are running the [latest version](https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist/releases/latest) of Tube Archivist as the API is under development and will change.
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- For testing this extension between releases, use the *unstable* builds of Tube Archivist, only for your testing environment.
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## Roadmap
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Join us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/AFwz8nE7BK) and help us improve and extend this project. This is a list of planned features, in no particular order:
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- [ ] Get download and subscribe status from TA to show on the injected buttons
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- [ ] Implement download button for videos on the YouTube homepage over inline preview
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- [ ] Implement download/subscribe button for playlists
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- [ ] Implement download button for videos on playlist
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- [ ] Error handling for connection errors
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- [X] Dynamically inject buttons with mutation observer
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