Links to YouTube videos don't open in the YouTube app but as the web version (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by Schaedelbach@feddit.de to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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I checked what kind of links are tied to the YouTube app and it's alle the usual links for YouTube (Youtou.be, Youtube. com, etc;). Yet, I click on a Yt video link and it opens up a browser window. I didn't change anything, whether in the options of Voyager nor which links should open with which app. Any idea what is going on?

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[-] fzz@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Just link to test and reproduce. https://youtu.be/1riOhUGTY2U?si=dU820qhERnmCzTS0

[-] fzz@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Okay, I can reproduce it on iOS and it is expected behavior.

In the settings turn on open links in in-app browser. Results is expected as promised - in-app web-view.

Otherwise if you set “open links in default browser”, it opens with YouTube app after all because of app-url-scheme, you know.

So, IMHO, all right on iOS.

[-] Schaedelbach@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Just tried this also on and it works! Not IOS but my Pixel and yet same thing: It was set to in app browser. No idea why. Changed it and it works like before! Thank you!

[-] aeharding@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Just FYI this will make all links open in browser instead of in-app. If someone makes a Github issue, I can add a feature to open Youtube links in Youtube app, while having other links open in the in-app browser. :)

[-] fzz@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Is it really needed to create special handlers for special hosts? Where YouTube is there and Twitter and other services. So, how much special handlers there will be?))

[-] fzz@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Okay, seems to I was wrong about special url-handling. I needed for lemmy hosts as minimum. As example, will be great to open links to posts in the same app instead of in-app/os’s browser. So now I’m sure we need it for various urls and I was wrong 😑

[-] fzz@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

That new problem isn’t about links in post body, but about link in the “link-post”. To reproduce tap to “example” link and then tap to link there - will open in the browser instead of this app.