Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
by scosman on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:20AM
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Potentially dumb question: if YouTube.js works in browser - can/has someone made a YouTube player that’s just a static page? Is there a need for a backend?
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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
by scosman on Monday March 17, 2025 @06:07AM
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To answer my own question: "To use YouTube.js in the browser, you must proxy requests through your own server"
Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
by modmodmod on Monday March 17, 2025 @12:06PM
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hey scosman, let me give it a try:
I don't really know if it could work, but I have a feeling it won't work mainly due to CORS (regardless if the app is served from http or file protocol) in the browser