Is it possible to allow a Javascript frontend to stream a video without downloading the full file?

[MichelJonkman]

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I want to create a music player with Youtube support but I can't figure out if it's possible. I need to be able to seek in the video as well.

I was thinking about using Tauri, meaning I'll be using a Rust backend and JavaScript/HTML frontend. An alternative would be a PWA but the Youtube stream would probably have to run through a proxy.

Is it possible to use yt-dlp for this? If so, how would I go about doing this?

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[rozari0]

Yep, pass the stream url to your fronted. (you can get steam url by yt-dlp -g <url>)

[MichelJonkman]

Alright, thank you very much!