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[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My YouTube redirect rule is a bit more complex, but works for all shorts, youtu.be and regular youtube links and it supports time stamps and videos that are part of a playlist.

Set the rule to regular expression, use this one

(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:youtube\.com\/(?:watch\?v=|shorts\/)|youtu\.be\/)([^&?\/]+[&?]?.*)

remove the two "amp;" at the end (Lemmy formatting is bad, it replaces an ampersand with & even if you tell it not to...) and redirect to https://%yourinstanceofchoice%/watch?v=$1

Enjoy!

[-] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Okay, what I was trying to do with Redirector is have it so I can search and browse videos on YouTube, but when I click on something that I want to watch, it forwards me to the same video on YewTu.be instead.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's exactly what this is doing. It captures all youtube.com/watch, youtube.com/shorts and youtu.be/ pages and redirects then to the same page on invidious. Just replace %yourinstanceofchoice% with yewtu.be.

If you don't open videos you want to watch in a new tab, you also have to go to Advanced Options in your rule and tick "HistoryState" else it will bypass the redirect.

This should work for you:

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