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

addon extension firefox firefox-addon firefox-extension javascript simple small youtube youtube-api youtube-scraper youtube-scrapping

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

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/randomgamingdev/yt-times
• Owner: RandomGamingDev
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-06-15T05:01:26.000Z (12 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-17T15:58:38.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-17T19:38:16.033Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: addon, extension, firefox, firefox-addon, firefox-extension, javascript, simple, small, youtube, youtube-api, youtube-scraper, youtube-scrapping
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-times/
• Size: 14.6 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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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.