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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by nix@merv.news to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Edit: The extension now lets you see lemmy comments on any website!

A couple weeks ago I reached out to the dev that makes the Reddit Comments for Youtube extension and asked him to enable support for Lemmy. The developer was already rewriting the extension and decided to implement Lemmy support as well! Here's the GitHub and FireFox links. It also available for Chrome iirc.

The comments appear after you select an instance in the extension's menu on any youtube video that has been posted to any Lemmy instance with a full url without a timecode. Invidious links and Lemmy comments on invidious instances still aren't supported but since its supported by the Reddit comments it should be possible if someone submits a PR.

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[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Did they change the API fees at Reddit? I thought stuff like that was supposed to be impossible now.

[-] nix@merv.news 21 points 2 years ago

The developer doesn't use the api, they're using Reddit's free JSON endpoint

[-] starman@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago
[-] nix@merv.news 10 points 2 years ago

I don’t really understand it since I know almost nothing about programming. But if I understand it correctly (which I probably don’t) the JSON endpoint is just a static set of information you can pull data from? While the API would be able to read and write data and have more precise information pulled. Not sure though because you can comment and vote from the extension so it’s somewhat interactive still

[-] witchdoctor@lemmy.basedcount.com 4 points 2 years ago

Never heard of scraping?

[-] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

This in freetube would be amazing!

[-] nix@merv.news 12 points 2 years ago
[-] pmarcilus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

They've said that they are not going to implement it so not a great news

[-] nix@merv.news 7 points 2 years ago

Seems like it’s not something they want to work on. they might accept a PR though

[-] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[-] witchdoctor@lemmy.basedcount.com 9 points 2 years ago

This would be cool for Invidious too

[-] solariplex@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 years ago

Neat stuff!

[-] cynber@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is amazing, thank you for reaching out to the dev!

This was on the list of ideas for InstanceAssistant, but I didn't know where to start. It is great news that it was added to the original extension.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

Great news!

this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2023
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