Videos not loading about workout-lol

[buidlcat]

I've come up with an unofficial workaround that will help. It lets you quickly access the MuscleWiki page with the exercise videos in one click.

Repo and setup instructions: https://github.com/buidlcat/workout-lol-ext

Preview:

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Why is this an extension?

In a perfect world I'd add this feature directly to the workout.lol repo but...

1. This solution isn't perfect. It uses "fuzzy search" to try and match the workout.lol exercise name with a link from MuscleWiki's sitemap. If MuscleWiki's sitemap drastically changes, this solution could break. In addition, fuzzy search is relatively slow.
2. I don't have access to workout.lol's (up-to-date) production database. Without all of the exercise names, I would need to scrape workout.lol and MuscleWiki to make this change (and to remove the need for fuzzy search).
3. I can't really fork the website because I'd still need the latest production db data.

In conclusion, the easiest way to integrate and share this hotfix was through a Chrome extension.

[Dimension4]

From the announcements:

Announcement About Videos & Instructions
As our agreement with MuscleWiki has come to an end, we have removed/replaced the videos and instructions for our exercise. Some exercises will not have videos and instructions and for now - we are working on replacing them. All instructions will be live by 29th August. Videos will take a few weeks.
Thank you for your patience. Enjoy your workout 💪!
Cheers,
The Workout.lol Crew

[SvanBoxel]

Hi! Is this still being worked on? I recently donated but the majority of videos isn't working anymore.

[nukeop]

I came back to this after some time and noticed this as well :( This is really bad because now I have to look up the exercises separately, and it interrupts the workout. How come the agreement came to an end? Is there anything we could do to bring them back?

[lumoe]

That is a great idea @buidlcat, thank you for implementing it. Unfortunately I only have my smartphone at the gym which is why I cannot use it.

Do we know whether this is against the ToS of MuscleWiki or we could find an agreement to implement this?