https://soundcloud.com is broken when the app is active.

It would be great if the wokring is detailed in the README. or included in this issue. Then it will be easier to contribute and develop on top of this.

On some older video, the thumbnail is 4:3 instead of 16:9. There are white spaces on left and right sides of the thumbnail when audio-only-youtube enabled.

Example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuVhv5wN9U
Thumbnail of the video: https://img.youtube.com/vi/AMuVhv5wN9U/sddefault.jpg (640px x 480px, 4:3 ratio)

Thank you for this extension!

I was looking for an extension in the same kind to save bandwidth. But, I do not usually use it manually. So I change a piece of code to activate the extension as soon as it leaves the active youtube page.

Here is the code for those interested.

In the background.js file, I changed these lines (127 to 149) ... :

chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function() {
    chrome.storage.local.get('audio_only_youtube_disabled', function(values) {
        var disabled = values.audio_only_youtube_disabled;

        if (!disabled) {
            enableExtension();
        } else {
            disableExtension();
        }

        disabled = !disabled;
        saveSettings(disabled);
    });
    chrome.tabs.query({
        active: true,
        currentWindow: true,
        url: "*://www.youtube.com/*"
    }, function(tabs) {
        if (tabs.length > 0) {
            chrome.tabs.update(tabs[0].id, {url: tabs[0].url});
        }
    });
});

... by these lines :

var disabled;

chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function() {
    chrome.storage.local.get('audio_only_youtube_disabled', function(values) {
        disabled = values.audio_only_youtube_disabled;

        if (!disabled) {
            enableExtension();
        } else {
            disableExtension();
        }

        disabled = !disabled;
        saveSettings(disabled);
    });
    chrome.tabs.query({
        active: true,
        currentWindow: true,
        url: "*://www.youtube.com/*"
    }, function(tabs) {
        if (tabs.length > 0) {
            chrome.tabs.update(tabs[0].id, {url: tabs[0].url});
        }
    });
});

chrome.tabs.onSelectionChanged.addListener(function() {
	chrome.storage.local.get('audio_only_youtube_disabled', function(values) {
        disabled = values.audio_only_youtube_disabled;
	
	    if (!disabled) {
			enableExtension();
			disabled = !disabled;
			saveSettings(disabled);
			
			chrome.tabs.query({
			active: false,
			currentWindow: true,
			url: "*://www.youtube.com/*"
			
			}, function(tabs) {
				if (tabs.length > 0) {
				chrome.tabs.update(tabs[0].id, {url: tabs[0].url});
				}  
			});
        }	    
    });
});

I only try to follow the rest of the pre-existing code :)

Awesome extension, but it seems doesn't compatible with PWA. Will be awesome if it support Youtube Music PWA

Now it no longer working with YouTube. When plugin is enabled then YT does not stream audio.

Please fix it.

Now that music.youtube.com is a thing, I do play lots of music there and occasionally there is a video with the track.
Would be awesome to save bandwidth there too !

Hey, thanks for this extension!

I usually leave one tab open for listening to music and others for regular browsing (including YouTube). I imagine many people do the same. Would it be possible to add an option (via browserAction or context menu) to only enable the extension on the current tab?

Thanks for your attention!

This is for debug purposes trying to find out the error.
I have noticed that there is a big decrease in network activity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt3Z2TKfWe0

This extension currently requires Read and change your data on all websites. That is very suspicious, as the extension is only for Youtube. Please limit the required permissions to only Youtube & Google Video domains.

The sound quality is noticeablely low if the extension is enabled.
I toggle it by the red icon in the youtube screen (quick access button).

after testing a few youtube videos I can see a couple megabytes of video/webm from googlevideo.com requests for each video that was watched, and I can't see any explicit blocking of the video urls inside the code.

Hello,

my congrats for the project!
There seems to be some problems when I click to skip advertisement button, e.g. at the beginning of the video.
The advertisement audio continues, so I have to reload the whole page

Wondering, does it only preserve bandwidth or also battery life?

Hi, Ashish

Really appreciate your ground breaking work here and spend all night trying to understand how you did it because I would like to implement video stream blocking in a standalone web app that only streams audio from various video sites for a little side project.

I see that you achieve this via the chrome.webRequest API by blocking the video stream. Apparently you also remove the parameters: ['range', 'rn', 'rbuf'], Is this what stops the video streams?

So, I understand the gist of how this works, but I don't have access to the Chrome ext APIs that you used. Was wondering if you have any ideas how to implement this in an web app scenario. I am planning to use the YT Iframe embedded API. Basically, I imagine that I would have to intercept the XMLHttpRequest made by the YT javascript library and then do something similar to what you did. I was looking at this library here: https://github.com/jpillora/xhook in order to intercept the YT requests.

Was wondering your thoughts on this and if this would work as a standalone implementation.

This extension is such a good idea to save bandwidth, not only on YouTube but all kinds of sites where videos are shown.

Is it possible to easily expand beyond YouTube?

Hi developer,
I've used your script already. Really good on most video!!
However, I want to use it to listen to music online. I've noticed that most script can't deal with Live Video. Maybe there is a technical issue for it, but I still want to know if there is a chance to have a Live Video supported version later.
Really like what you are working on.
Thank you.

Something default YouTube does.

Can the extension support this, too?

Ideally one would probably have this run only on youtube.com

can you add some function to skip or continue when youtube paused automatically

While using the extension the audio drops/skips forward and goes back randomly for a tenth of second or so. Pretty fast but still audible.
I'm using Chrome 60.0.3112.90 64 bits on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a Lenovo Thinkpad T430 w/ Intel i5 Ivy Bridge. Light use, no CPU intensive tasks at the time.
Great job!

Can you lead me to the most appropriate way for this purpose? thanks

Is this extension actively maintained? it's not available on chrome web store anymore.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/audio-only-youtube/pkocpiliahoaohbolmkelakpiphnllog

Hi,

I would like to contribute to this project but I didn't find any instructions.

https://github.com/craftwar/youtube-audio
My work is based on https://github.com/animeshkundu/youtube-audio
It looks like his is similar to your.

is it possible to do audio only, or to block entirely the video&audio based on the tags available in the clip ??
For example, filter/block all videos that has the tag "News" or "Vlog" etc. etc.

That would just be amazing if possible..

The title is self-explanatory

. I disabled YouTube related extensions but this was the only Extention that caused it.

Is it possible to add Opera too? :)

Add an option to..
Block preview images
OR
Use the preview images as a lower quality "video"
With HTML you can get each frame and string them together with frames. This would make the extension save more data AND allow users to "watch the video"! Because the frames are so choppy, it will be pretty bad.

Example images https://i9.ytimg.com/sb/M1yhh5biutY/storyboard3_L1/M1.jpg?sigh=vD8qrodMUXWxeg_R0Aa9hEk1OME

Bug:

1. Am on main youtube page
2. Click on song to play
3. Page loads, song plays, addon correctly blocks video
4. I click the back button on my browser (mouse back button)
5. Am back on main youtube page
6. While still on main youtube page, the song that I was listening to before I clicked back audio starts playing

Source : Commented by someone on chrome webstore.

Observed on music.youtube.com. If song originally didn't have video stream (music with static image instead of video) then extension make playlist to stuck on such song forever. UI of music.youtube shows that next and next and next songs are playing but instead it repeats just this problematic song.

Just what title says. Simply works for some moments but... give a try and you will know what happens.

Most Chrome extensions work with no modifications in Firefox

https://vimeo.com/241435808

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Browser_support_for_JavaScript_APIs

pls read heading :3

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/audio-only-youtube/pkocpiliahoaohbolmkelakpiphnllog?hl=en is unavailable when I tried installing on my another pc

I have a slow internet, only ~3.75mbits/s D and ~1mbits/s U. So I would like to thank you for your awesome extension, it really helps to save bandwidth especially when gaming or downloading large files.

One problem, though, is that when it buffers, it skips to the start a few times, sometimes not actually ending up playing and getting stuck as paused. Is there a fix for this? Thanks!

Hello, I would like to request a new feature. On clicking icon, reload current page(if it is youtube) with start time as current time. Thanks!

Hey there,

Great work on the extension, Just wanted to ask is it possible to get it to work on embedded youtube videos?

More specifically I was wondering if it's possible to disable the videos on sites like https://www.dazik.com

Thanks.

Microsoft Edge is the second most used browser on the web, making the browsing experience more flexible, offering many more services for users and optimized for Windows devices.

Microsoft Edge supports Chromium extensions, and you can publish your extensions to Microsoft Edge Add-ons website with minimal code changes. Find out more here.

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Let me know if this was helpful. I am happy to help you with more details.

Read and change all your data on the websites you visit

"permissions": [
"tabs",
"webRequest",
":///*",
"webRequestBlocking",
"storage"
],

I think as many other people that permissions should be scoped only to youtube.com* sites, please let know if this will be implemented, thanks.

it would be a lot more handy than clicking on the extension button

Description

I've been using this extension for a few months ago. Recently, I noticed that it now shows a thumbnail for the video playing. To be clear, this only applies to the actual video element, for the video that is currently playing. The suggestions' thumbnails are blocked as expected.
See images below:

Expected (previous) behaviour

Actual (current) behaviour

Is this due to some CSS change on youtube? Or have there been changes been made to this extension? If the latter, could we please have an option to toggle this behaviour on or off?
I mainly use this extension in order to NOT SEE even the thumbnail - since some mixes I enjoy listening to sadly have "questionable" (borderline NSFW) images and thumbnails.

I guess it wouldn't be too hard to allow downloading the audio stream

I could help later, will need to get familiar with the code first

Reason I ask is some services like https://ytmp3.cc/en13/ fail to download the audio with large videos

It's useless, it should be disabled to save even more.

.ytp-thumbnail-overlay-image remove display:none
.ytp-large-play-button add display:none

JS code:

document.getElementsByClassName('ytp-thumbnail-overlay-image')[0].style.display= '';
document.getElementsByClassName('ytp-large-play-button')[0]= 'none';

EDIT: I earlier brashly declared that the extension should be unpublished because all it does is hide the youtube video's html element, saving no bandwidth.

After testing with and without the extension and monitoring the Network tab, I've found that it does save bandwidth. Anecdotally, about 50%. Digging further into the source code, I see it works by intercepting and modifying requests for video data made by the browser.

My earlier claims that the extension saves no bandwidth are entirely false. Sorry. And thank you for the explanation.

Invalid (wrong repo).

Hi @Ashish-Bansal
I find that the audio gets buffered faster when the video quality is set to 144p on youtube.
Is there a possibility to implement this code onto your extension?
P.s. Thanks for such an amazing extension.

Like it would always be enabled on youtube music, but youtube would be seperate (and per tab? #3 )