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README.md

Tube Archivist Companion

A browser extension to directly add videos from YouTube to Tube Archivist.

MVP or better bearly viable product

This is a proof of concept with the following functionality:

Add your Tube Archivist connection details in the addon popup
Inject a download button into youtube search results page
Clicking the button will automatically add the video to the your download queue

Test this extension

Firefox
- Open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox
- Click on Load Temporary Add-on
- Select the manifest.json file to load the addon.
Chrome / Chromium
- Open chrome://extensions/
- Toggle Developer mode on top right
- Click on Load unpacked
- Open the folder containing the manifest.json file.

Help needed

This is only minimally useful in this state. Join us on our Discord and please help us improve that.

Note:

For mysterious reasons sometimes the download buttons will only load when refreshing the YouTube search page and not on first load... Hence: Help needed!
For your testing environment only for now: Point the extension to the newest unstable build.