Youtube Audio Mode

Listen to only the audio on YouTube without loading the video.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

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You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Userscripts to install this script.

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// ==UserScript==
// @name        Youtube Audio Mode
// @description Listen to only the audio on YouTube without loading the video.
// @version     0.2.8
// @author      Burn
// @namespace   https://openuserjs.org/users/burn
// @copyright   2022, burn (https://openuserjs.org/users/burn)
// @include     https://www.youtube.com/*
// @match       https://www.youtube.com/*
// @license     MIT
// @run-at      document-end
// @grant       GM.setValue
// @grant       GM.getValue
// @noframes
// ==/UserScript==

/*

PLEASE NOTE

The original version of this userscript is written by Teaqu
and it's published here: https://github.com/teaqu/youtube-audio-mode

*/

(async function(open, originalFetch) {
    const DBG = false;
    let myLog = (msg) => {
        DBG && console.log(GM_info.script.name + " | " + msg);
    };

    window.addEventListener("yt-navigate-finish", audioMode);
    window.onYouTubeIframeAPIReady = await audioMode();

    async function audioMode() {
        if (location.pathname == "/watch") {
            let video = document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0];
            let audioMode = await GM.getValue("ytAudioMode");
            await addToMenu(audioMode);
            if (audioMode) {
                setPoster(video, ["maxres", "hq", "sd"]);
                watchFetchStream(video);
            } else { myLog("audiomode is disabled"); }
        }
    }

    function watchFetchStream(video) {
        const constantMock = originalFetch;
        unsafeWindow.fetch = function() {
            return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
                constantMock.apply(this, arguments)
                .then((response) => {
                    if (response.url.indexOf("mime=audio") > -1) { // && response.type != "cors"){
                        !video.paused && video.pause();
                        myLog("current time after pausing video: " + video.currentTime);
                        let currentTimeStamp = video.currentTime;
                        video.src = response.url.split("&range")[0];
                        video.currentTime = currentTimeStamp;
                        myLog("current time before resuming video playback: " + video.currentTime);
                        video.paused && video.play();
                    }
                    resolve(response);
                })
                .catch((error) => {
                    reject(response);
                })
            });
        }
    }

    // Add audio mode to the settings menu
    async function addToMenu(audioMode) {
        let panel = document.getElementsByClassName("ytp-panel-menu")[0];
        if (!panel.innerHTML.includes("Audio Mode")) {
            panel.innerHTML += `
            <div class="ytp-menuitem"
                aria-checked="${audioMode}"
                id="audio-mode">
                <div class="ytp-menuitem-icon"></div>
                <div class="ytp-menuitem-label">Audio Mode</div>
                <div class="ytp-menuitem-content">
                    <div class="ytp-menuitem-toggle-checkbox">
                </div>
            </div>`;

            // Toggle audio mode on or off
            let audioToggle = document.getElementById("audio-mode");
            let videoElm = document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0];
            audioToggle.onclick = async function() {
                let audioMode = ! await GM.getValue("ytAudioMode");
                this.setAttribute("aria-checked", audioMode);
                GM.setValue("ytAudioMode", audioMode);
                location.href = location.protocol
                    + "//" + location.hostname
                    + location.pathname
                    + setGetVar("t", parseInt(videoElm.currentTime) + "s");
            }
        }
    }

    // Set the video poster from thumbnails with the best avaliable format
    // https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/thumbnails
    async function setPoster(video, fmts) {
        let img = new Image();
        let videoId = location.search.match(/v=(.+?)(&|$)/)[1];
        img.src = `//i.ytimg.com/vi/${videoId}/${fmts.shift()}default.jpg`
        img.onload = function() {
            myLog("thumbnail loaded");
            // A height 90 is YouTube "not found" image.
            if (img.height <= 90) {
                myLog("thumbnail should be youtube not found image");
                setPoster(video, fmts);
            } else {
                myLog("thumbnail found, now applying css rule to display it");
                video.style.background = `url(${img.src}) no-repeat center`;
                video.style.backgroundSize = "contain";
            }
        };
    }

    function setGetVar(name, value) {
        let vars = getVars();
        vars[name] = value;
        let strSearch = "?";
        for (let n in vars)
            strSearch += n + "=" + vars[n] + "&";
        return strSearch.substring(0, strSearch.length - 1);
    }
    function getVars() {
        // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12049620/how-to-get-get-variables-value-in-javascript#12049703
        let GET = [];
        window.location.href.replace(/[?&]+([^=&]+)=([^&]*)/gi, function(a,name,value) {GET[name] = value;});
        return GET;
    }
})(XMLHttpRequest.prototype.open, window.fetch || unsafeWindow.fetch);