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https://github.com/randomgamingdev/yt-times

A Firefox Extension that replaces the undescriptive youtube time with the exact absolute time of release
https://github.com/randomgamingdev/yt-times

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A Firefox Extension that replaces the undescriptive youtube time with the exact absolute time of release

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# Youtube Times aka yt-times
### A Firefox Extension that replaces the undescriptive youtube time with the exact absolute time of release. Perfect for all your Internet Historian needs!
You can use it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-times/


![image](https://github.com/RandomGamingDev/yt-times/assets/83996185/cec6f8b4-14e6-4672-8f6b-b12f0230d713)

## Results

#### So youtube now produces the exact date like this:
![image](https://github.com/RandomGamingDev/yt-times/assets/83996185/48c14fbb-61bf-454b-a8c3-967e74ae100b)
#### instead of this:
![image](https://github.com/RandomGamingDev/yt-times/assets/83996185/7c7e6618-04d3-4443-b634-e8720bb12cfd)

## How it works
For each video, it takes the URL and fetches the video's page before scraping the exact time of upload.

It doesn't use the Youtube API so that I could avoid having to implement it in a way that would either require a proxy, OAuth validation that could deter users, or publicly revealing a Youtube API Token key as well as not have to worry about any usage limits.