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YouTubeCenter
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YouTubeCenter

YouTube Center is a userscript designed to expand the functionality of YouTube. It includes the ability to download the video you're watching, auto selecting your preferred video quality and much more.

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What it is

YouTube Center is a userscript designed to expand the functionality of YouTube. It includes the ability to download the video you're watching, auto selecting your preferred video quality and much more.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-10-18 16:55:12 UTC to 2017-05-02 19:29:24 UTC.

01232013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

8 sources
oridecon·May 2, 2017
I won't switch to the new layout until extensions like https://github.com/ParticleCore/Particle https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/ are fully supported. After you try features like fullbrowser mode, disabled autoplay, PIP mode when you scroll down to read comments, animated thumbnail preview on hover, detailed information below the thumbnail like resolution/like ratio and many more it's impossible to go back.
In YouTube’s redesign is official, and there’s a dark mode
rasz_pl·Apr 6, 2015
HA, I did similar thing for Opera 12.xx on windows with mplayer :-) I see you are using youtube-dl. I did too at first, but quickly swapped for YouTubeCenter plugin - it extracts link to mp4 directly in the javascript, my additional javascript grabs that and substitutes YT player window with big PLAY button with a link to custom protocol "magnet1:https://r2---sn-2apm-f5fee.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?sou.... Copying the way browsers open magnet links was the quickest and easiest way I found of passing links directly to a third party program. I simply made a new one, called it magnet1, and directed it towards \AppData\Roaming\smplayer\mplayer.bat %1 . mplayer.bat: echo off set var=%1 start "" "C:\Users\bofh\AppData\Roaming\smplayer\smplayer" "%var:~9% exit . cut first 9 characters (magnet1:) and run mplayer, that again was the only way I
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found of starting new program without keeping command line window open. No delay between clicking and starting video, no unnecesary command prompt window with youtube-dl running. I also have a second custom protocol that starts yet another bat file sending link directly to my TV - one click on a page and YT clip starts playing on the TV in the next room :o) Feels like duct tape and glue, but works flawlessly :) https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter
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