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[Enhancement] [Search] Open video pasting YouTube URL
Proposal
Improve the search field, in order to accept a YouTube URL instead of a generic search term. Example: you can paste this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mgYnwhM4eg
To be redirected there:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5mgYnwhM4eg
Some interesting related documents:
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6903823/regex-for-youtube-id
Pro:
- you don't need a rewrite extension
- useful when you are on another computer, or from a smartphone, or from a TV
- you don't need to manually rewrite the URL
- usually longer than copy-paste
- allows to avoid typo/mistakes
Example use case:
Somebody sends a YouTube URL in a chat. You have an Invidio.us tab already opened (or you have a bookmark to it). You could just copy that, paste in the search bar, and see the video.
Mmh I think you can get the same result with a web extension like privacy redirect or libredirect or any other redirector extension.
On top of that, you can just swap the domain youtube.com to yewtu.be and you will get the same result.
Not sure if it's really useful to implement this feature.
Also, as far as I know, iOS cannot support browser extensions. So, this is a good use case for a lot of users.
Moreover, I don't know how much you love the Fediverse, but lot of PeerTube users love to paste URLs from domain1 in search bar of domain2 resulting in a transparent integration.
Example: visit this URL (video.linux.it) and see what I searched, and look what I've found (the video from peertube.uno):
https://video.linux.it/search?search=https:%2F%2Fpeertube.uno%2Fw%2Fff69b2fb-63d4-4eea-9684-eca165fa500d&searchTarget=local
And trust me, pasting a YouTube URL in the search bar of Invidious can be intuitive and a-m-a-z-i-n-g-l-y quick and monkey-approved.
Yup, I completely agree that this is a very cool feature to have! I'll see what I can do to implement it, but I can't promise it will be done soon.
