Add an option to open YouTube videos in FreeTube
// ==UserScript==
// @name FreeTube Button
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 1.0
// @description Add an option to open YouTube videos in FreeTube
// @author devilrajat
// @match *://www.youtube.com/*
// @grant none
// @license MIT
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
// Function to create and add the FreeTube button
function addFreeTubeButton(videoLink) {
// Check if the FreeTube button is already added
if (videoLink.nextElementSibling && videoLink.nextElementSibling.classList.contains('freetube-button')) {
return;
}
// Create the FreeTube button
let freeTubeButton = document.createElement('a');
freeTubeButton.href = 'freetube://' + videoLink.href;
freeTubeButton.textContent = 'Open in FreeTube';
freeTubeButton.style.marginLeft = '10px';
freeTubeButton.style.color = '#ff0000';
freeTubeButton.classList.add('freetube-button');
// Insert the button after the video link
videoLink.parentNode.insertBefore(freeTubeButton, videoLink.nextSibling);
}
// Add event listeners to all video links on the home page
function addListeners() {
let videoLinks = document.querySelectorAll('a#video-title, a#thumbnail, a[href^="/watch"]');
videoLinks.forEach(link => {
addFreeTubeButton(link);
});
}
// Initial run and re-run when new content is loaded dynamically
new MutationObserver(addListeners).observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });
// Initial call to addListeners
addListeners();
})();