Thursday, April 23, 2009

Auto Replay for YouTube: Firefox Addon

YouTube definitely is an awesome site with good usability and stuff. One thing that i really miss(ed) was a simple "auto replay button". I for once got really needy of such a feature and even tweeted about it. One of my friend in twitter asked me to try writing an add-on for the same and here it is.


Why is such a feature even needed?

Some like me, when stumbled upon an awesome song(like Handlebars by Flobots or Viva la Vida by Coldplay), would really want to hear it more than once. And in YouTube without an Auto replay button, its really a pain.

I had bookmarked the YouTube Chromeless JavaScript API reference long time back that came real handy today. I was able to finish the add-on in no time with these simple APIs.

Install your copy from here. As always, report any bugs/issues here. Feature requests are always welcome!

ps: You don't need a mozilla account anymore to install the experimental add-ons. You just need to check the "Let me install this experimental add-on" checkbox and carry on with your installation.

Update 0.0.4: Added options to choose the portion of the video to be auto replayed. [Recommended install]

8 comments:

Sathish Yadav said...

Good add-on maame...

dana said...

Very nice! Thank you!

tobias said...

what does i have to put in the text thing when i open it... cant get it to work

Sridhar said...

@tobias,

Did you "check" the Auto Replay check box?

And in the text box, you need to fill the start and end seconds(will be soon changed to minutes) of the video you need to be replayed.

Replay works only when Auto Replay check box is checked(ticked).

javier said...
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Anonymous said...

The add-on does not work when you watch a video in HQ/HD. Please fix this!!

Edwin said...

Nice i freaking love this! It works for HD/HQ videos.
would it be possible to get it to work for videos in the main profile?

Sridhar said...

Edwin,

Thanks for the complements!

I have purposefully restricted the addon to work only in youtube video page. Will try to implement it in my next update.