I often set the playback-rate of youtube videos to something like 1.25 or 1.5 to get through a video a little faster without getting bored.

But sometimes 1.25 is a little to fast for my taste.

So i just went and had a look into the html and found that i can easily get any playback speed i want by running this snippet:

document.getElementsByClassName('video-stream html5-main-video')[0].playbackRate=1.125;

This sets the speed to 1.125. But any rate will do: 0.69, 4.20, 6.666. Doesn’t matter.

It’s kinda obvious that it will throw an error if there is not at least one element on the page with the classnames ‘video-stream html5-main-video’, but nevermind.

I then added this snippet into a browser-bookmark i can click anytime i’m watching a yt video and want to set the speed.

javascript:{document.getElementsByClassName('video-stream html5-main-video')[0].playbackRate=1.125;}

  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    PSA, do not copy any JS code on the web to your browser unless you understand it or it has been validated by many others.

    in general, well-established browser extension are unlikely to be malicious, but random JS code on the internet can.

    (in this specific case, the code seems fine to me.

    • @jcgA
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      I was actually surprised that you could still bookmark javascript: URLs since you can’t paste them into the address bar anymore.