Essential YouTube
Consumer and social
video streaming client
SHOW HN2016
110points
54comments
#333of 2,264 in 2016
Top 15%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 6 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Execution: 2 for, 3 againstIdea: 3 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 2 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Lean codebase with no package.json, bundler or UI library
From 2 comments
Love that you can read the entire source in a few hundred lines of dead simple JS[1]. [1] https://github.com/boramalper/Essential-YouTube/blob/master/index.js
Dachande663 on HNCame here just to say this. Pleasantly surprised to see front-end project without a package.json, a bundler, a UI library. Even the templating is inline!
krat0sprakhar on HN
Fast loading compared to YouTube
From 2 comments
Thanks for this! Youtube is terribly slow on my computer but this loads instantly.
cmlaverdiere on HNPretty cool and lean!
impe83 on HN
Clean, simple interface
From 2 comments
Clean interface but it made me (re)discover that the related videos are really useful. When a video is over here is like "what now?" and I have to go back to the search page. It…
pmontra on HNA Chrome plugin to redirect any youtube URLs to this would be great :-)
andy_ppp on HN
Objections
Hiding the video during search is confusing
From 1 comment
"Features: Disruption-free Search The video keeps playing even while you are searching" When I do a search, the audio of the video keeps playing, and there is a working seek bar…
wjoe on HN
Search result titles are truncated
From 1 comment
Really dislike how titles are truncated after a fairly small number of words. (I did a search for "on cinema" which is a comedy web series, and almost none of the results showed…
bradezone on HN
Back navigation loses search or restarts video
From 2 comments
I am unable to navigate back and see my search.
benkarst on HNWhen I used the back button, the video started again at the beginning, it would be good if it would remember the place, like bbc iplayer does.
stuaxo on HN
Possible Terms of Service violation
From 3 comments
Their API has a TOS. Not everything that uses the API is allowed by the TOS, and you shouldn't assume that it is. Not saying this site is against the TOS (I haven't read it), but…
orodley on HN> It leverages the official API so I don't see why not. There is something called Terms Of Service. Just because you use an API it doesn't mean you can do anything with it. It's…
spriggan3 on HNI became aware of it after setting up the website, unfortunately. I hope I won't have to change the domain and the name. Another violation, that I became aware of later on too,…
boramalper on HN
Requests
Chrome extension or userscript to redirect YouTube URLs
From 2 comments
A Chrome plugin to redirect any youtube URLs to this would be great :-)
andy_ppp on HNCan that be made into a greasymonkey user.js? That would be sweet.
badocr on HN
Playlist support
From 2 comments
Can you make playlists? I'm not even thinking of having an account and storing them there, but just to have a long URL that lists a bunch of videos to be played.
Bromskloss on HNI want something like this on the youtube dashboard. I want to see at a glance the trends + subscriptions (and the subscriptions that are gaining momentum/are popular). I don't…
manish_gill on HN
Show video fill the page without extra elements
From 1 comment
I've deleted my YouTube account and started using RSS to subscribe to channels. If I could get it to open to this page instead I think I'd have just about the exact experience…
jasonkostempski on HN
Use HTML template tags instead of inline JS templates
From 2 comments
The template being inline is a bug, not a feature in my opinion. You can actually write arbitrary templates into HTML using <script type='text/template'> (or really any type…
mediumdeviation on HNI agree writing templates into JS like that is plain ugly. Using HTML5 template[1] tag is a better way to go. I used it in a fun project[2] and it works flawlessly in all modern…
fnaticshank on HN
Questions
Is this allowed by Google's terms?
From 2 comments
Amazing! Is this allowed by Google?
mk89 on HNTheir API has a TOS. Not everything that uses the API is allowed by the TOS, and you shouldn't assume that it is. Not saying this site is against the TOS (I haven't read it), but…
orodley on HN
Does it work with a URL scheme similar to YouTube?
From 1 comment
Allow me to go to your page just by entering a different domain, meaning having a URL schema similar to that of youtube, that would make things much simpler.
arturventura on HN
Alternatives named
NewPipe Android app
From 1 comment
Not sure what specifically you're looking for in such an app but I'm using https://newpipe.schabi.org/.
bgaluszka on HN
Unreddit
From 1 comment
Yeah that's one of the reasons it is so simple and easy to use a service like http://unreddit.com/. Great suggestion.
jswny on HN
Switcheroo redirector
From 1 comment
Switcheroo[1]: From 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=' To 'http://essentialyoutube.com/#' :) [1]…
nip on HN
Cakey kids YouTube client
From 1 comment
Friend of mine made: https://medium.com/@jhong/introducing-cakey-8b646cc1768b#.nr930wyd2
pbreit on HN