murk3000 / custom-playback-loop

custom-playback-loop

DOCUMENTATION

Purpose:

Ever want to loop a song on youtube but skip the annoying bits in the start and/or the end. Well be annoyed no more! Here's your simple solution. Just follow along with the steps and you can create your own custom youtube loop. If you know some coding, or are willing to jump into the rabbit hole, you could also customize this code for different websites, given that they meet certain conditions.

Steps (Youtube):

(If you want the steps for some other site, scroll down)

1. Download the custom loop (youtube).txt file
2. Set the hack variables (hackMin, hackRMin, etc.) that are right on top of the file.
3. Copy & paste the new code onto your browser's console (for chrome, right click->inspect->change tab to console->paste)
4. Hit enter and enjoy!

Steps (Other Pages):

1. Open developer tools on chrome
2. Use Select an element on this page to inspect it on the top-left side of the dev tools
3. Hover over the video till the whole video is highlighted, and click on it. You'll be shown the corresponding webpage code.
4. If the corresponding code is in this format <video ...someText...>...moreText...</video> this code will work :), otherwise you're out of luck :(
5. Right click and select add attribute
6. Type the following id="myCustomName" (don't use spaces in your name)
7. Replace every instance of document.getElementsByClassName("someClassName")[0] with document.getElementByID("myCustomName")
8. Now follow the regular steps and enjoy!

Drawbacks/Warnings:

• You need to paste the code everytime you reload the page. These are edits you make to the local copy of the website. Each reload loads the website from Youtube, which does not store the edits you made.
• The code uses class names to identify your video. If youtube ever changes that in the future this code may be useless. In the same manner this code is useless on pages other than youtube. Let me know if that's the case by raising an issue, or follow the steps for the other pages and fix your own copy!