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HELLO FRIEND talented developer, I need your help.
the world of longplay channel https://www.youtube.com/@worldoflongplays has 16000 videos. your program worked. BUT the Kuplinov Play channel https://www.youtube.com/@kuplinovplay has 6000 videos and the program failed. tried 4 times. waited a long time, more than an hour and two hours. The channel has 14 million subscribers. HELP PLEASE

E.g. filter videos by release date, ratings etc.

This is more in line with YouTube's own naming scheme, and allows for easier translation in #10

E.g. when moving from subscriptions directly to a channel page, it can happen that the saved video ID is the top-left video from the subscriptions page

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On the current icon, the shuffle icon is hardly visible.

Currently, the button is not centered correctly in line with the other buttons.

If a channel has a lot of videos and we need to fetch them all from the API, this could take a very long time.
We don't want the user to wait for so long, so we should try to start a random video from the first few pages and fetch the rest in the background.

If a channel hasn't been visited in a longer time, its entry in local storage may be removed to save storage space. This can either be done periodically, or only when storage is full.

With the current approach, the whole playlist gets "updated", meaning overwritten, even though we would only need to add a number of strings to the "videos" child list.

The button text should be localized to the language of the current YouTube page.

Due to the way the button is added, it is possible for the button to cause other buttons to clip into each other for certain zoom levels/resolutions. See screenshot below:

It may be possible to fix this by removing the text from the button (not real fix), or by moving the button into the dropdown list to the right if needed.

E.g. when fetching a long list of videos for a channel, let the user know it might take some time, e.g. through the button or popup, maybe even with a progress counter, as we know the total number of videos we will fetch.

Ties in with #18

For some channels it takes longer than for others, and this gives an idea of whether or not the extension has run into an error or not.

E.g. the extension .zip could be added to a package/release.

Maybe a user knows that a new video was uploaded and the channel does not have many videos, so they may want to force an update without waiting for the auto-update. A button for this could be added to the popup.

This may be used together with #20

This may be used together with #19

It may be possible for local data to get corrupted somehow. For these cases, it should be possible to manually clear all data, or only data concerning a particular channel

This prevents users that click the random button multiple times from eating up API queries, by re-using what was already fetched

The same as for the channel page, the video page contains options such as "Join" and "Subscribe", where a "Shuffle" button can be added.

Hey, I love your idea. In fact, I've been thinking about a similar plugin myself and just want to leave a little love for the fact that you implemented it. Keep up the good work <3.

Please help api error (403 )

YouTube handles the case where the page width is too small for its native buttons, and adds a second row if necessary. The addition of the new "Random" button is not handled, which leads to some unsightly button clipping:

This may apply to both the YouTube API as well as Firebase. For Firebase, we might need to look into upgrading the Plan if needed. For YouTube, a quota extension is in progress.
If needed, we might need to implement a quota restriction per day/user.

To speed up the button click, we can pre-load the playlist info when the page loads if there already is info in local storage. We don't want to ping the API!

E.g. ping the video url, if it doesn't exist remove it from the db and choose new video.

As we now store the time a video was uploaded, we can add this as a threshold option.

Whenever you navigate between videos, the complete page reloads. This significantly impacts the user experience on YouTube in general, which is why we should try to get the channel-ID for the current channel in a different way when on video pages.

By using window.location.href, the whole page gets reloaded, which is not the optimal experience. If we figure out how to use the native youtube navigate events to do the transition, this would greatly improve the user experience.

Note: If we do this, we need to make sure to update the button texts accordingly!

Perhaps we only want to do this if we reach storage limits. We can use the lastUpdatedDBAt field for this, as it indicated the time the last user used this +/- a few days depending on usage.

This can be useful for development purposes. A field in the Firebase database could be added that tracks this.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I think it would be a great feature if I could set whether to start a video in a playlist as this can have unwanted side effects, like activating the SPA function of youtube.

(SPA = Single Page Application, for example, ensures that when I call the start page via the youtube logo that the video continues to run.)

Describe the solution you'd like
Just create a regex rule which (if the setting is active) removes the key value entry named "list" in the GET parameters so that only the video is called without the list.

Describe alternatives you've considered
The manual removal is nerdy.

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Currently, we get into an endless loop.

i've installed this extension just a few days ago, and for some reason since the very first time i've used it the shuffle button doesn't appear on video pages anymore. is there a way to fix this or did i do something wrong?

If a user shuffles from a shorts page they likely only want to watch shorts from that channel. An option should be added on how to handle shuffling from shorts pages, i.e. if the existing shorts option should be honoured, or if only shorts should be shuffled as an override.

This helps prevent bugs from renaming or adding new items

Currently, generic error descriptions are shown on the button itself. More detail should be added, which is possible using the extension popup.