FYTE /Fast YouTube Embedded/ Player

Hugely improves load speed of pages with lots of embedded Youtube videos by instantly showing clickable and immediately accessible placeholders, then the thumbnails are loaded in background. Optionally a fast simple HTML5 direct playback (720p max) can be selected if available for the video.

These are all versions of this script. Show only the versions where the code changed.

  • v2.13.2 2024/06/11

    fix autoplay, exclude pikabu.ru

  • v2.13.1 2024/05/26

    speed up hasChildWindow

  • v2.13.0 2024/05/26

    fix video card in google search

  • v2.12.19 2024/05/12

    lazy db init, idle if no frames, fix cover url

  • v2.12.18 2024/03/22

    fix indexedDB auto clean-up

  • v2.12.17 2023/10/10

    switch from localStorage to indexedDB to improve page load performance

  • v2.12.16 2023/08/19
    • fix errors for trustedTypes and YTlistener
    • custom rules in GM storage (use your userscript manager editor for storage)
    • minify cache data
    • reveal iframe earlier on error
  • v2.12.15 2022/06/27

    tampermonkey compat

  • v2.12.14 2022/06/26

    typo

  • v2.12.13 2022/06/26

    fix object embeds

  • v2.12.12 2022/03/10

    google search fullcard video fix

  • v2.12.11 2021/10/07

    video card in google search

  • v2.12.10 2021/07/22

    use watch page since get_video_info is gone

  • v2.12.9 2021/07/12

    show reason when non-playable

  • v2.12.8 2021/06/18

    fix get_video_info

  • v2.12.7 2021/01/18 reset paddings/margins
  • v2.12.6 2020/12/20 fix video card on google.com
  • v2.12.5 2020/08/02
  • v2.12.5 2020/08/02
  • v2.12.5 2020/07/09 fix fullscreen button
  • v2.12.4 2020/06/16 fix google search video card
  • v2.12.3 2020/05/08 only override fullscreen button if frame is reachable
  • v2.12.2 2020/05/04 src may be null
  • v2.12.1 2020/04/27 restore the missing comma in known titles; use onvolumechange
  • v2.12.0 2020/04/19 rewrite to ES2017 + don't exit full screen upon seeking in timeline + show timestamp in storyboard
  • v2.11.0 2020/03/25 typo
  • v2.11.0 2020/03/24 support invidio.us player
  • v2.10.1 2020/02/21 skip already deleted nodes
  • v2.10.0 2020/01/30 various fixes
  • v2.9.18 2019/12/19 preserve CSS transform
  • v2.9.17 2019/08/12 decode youtube signature
  • v2.9.16 2019/08/12 fix video info parser
  • v2.9.15 2019/07/27 skip nodes with position:fixed and "YouTube on Hover Preview"
  • v2.9.14 2019/07/27 only recreate the YT fullscreen button if there's a parent FYTE instance (which may not be the case if the user excluded the site manually)
  • v2.9.13 2019/06/18 correctly pause/unpause on click in Chrome
  • v2.9.12 2019/03/24 force-enable the fullscreen button
  • v2.9.11 2019/01/05 don't recheck frames/objects take 2
  • v2.9.10 2019/01/05 don't recheck frames/objects
  • v2.9.8 2018/11/27 allow fullscreen and autoplay in new Chrome
  • v2.9.7 2018/10/20
  • v2.9.6 2018/10/20
  • v2.9.5 2018/10/16
  • v2.9.4 2018/06/11 anilist.co
  • v2.9.4 2017/12/08
  • v2.9.3 2017/12/07 fix videos on play.google.com
  • v2.9.2 2017/11/19 fix resizing of a pinned player
  • v2.9.1 2017/11/18 intercept videos on reddit comment pages
  • v2.9.0.5 2017/09/22 strip "v=" in invalid links like "/embed/v="
  • v2.9.0.4 2017/08/26 also process data-src attributes
  • v2.9.0.3 2017/08/25 reset CSS transform

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