YouTube Player is an add-on for Firefox. It provides the ability to store and play YouTube playlists without logging in to YouTube. It is currently in early development, but can still be useful. However, if you are not an advanced user, it is not recommended.
Currently, YouTube Player allows you to create multiple playlists, which can then be played in a random or fixed order in one or more tabs by right-clicking on a tab that is navigated to youtube.com. The playlists can be added to clicking on the add-on icon to bring up a small popup. The playlists can be modified by going to the add-on options page.
YouTube Player is not yet available on addons.mozilla.org. To use it, enable developer mode and load the add-on manually in about:debugging. Unfortunately, the add-on must be reloaded every time the browser is restarted.
A full backup solution is planned for v0.4. However, for now, all playlists
and settings can be backed up by going to YouTube Player > Manage Extension >
Preferences. Then, press Ctrl+Shift+I (or Cmd+Opt+I on MacOS).
In the console, type getBackup().then(x => console.warn(x)).
Then, copy the output highlighted in yellow. To restore this backup, type
useBackup(`[paste backup here]`) in the console.
Note: this is only recommended for advanced users.
YouTube Player is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.
- Ability to create YouTube playlists
- Ability to play YouTube playlists
- Ability to have multiple playlists
- Ability to customize playback behavior via options page
- Ability to view and edit existing playlists
- Ability to view and edit names and descriptions for videos in playlists
- Better code quality, including more comments
- Improvements for behavior when the user navigates while a playlist is playing
- Improvements for behavior when YouTube doesn't load properly
- An HTML overlay that shows the status of the current playlist and allows users to skip back/forward in a playlist
- Keyboard shortcuts to start playlists
- Ability to auto-generate playlists based on browsing
- Ability to save and restore playlists (partially implemented in v0.2)
- Ability to add start/stop times for individual videos
- Ability to reorder playlists without deleting and re-adding