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scosman on March 16, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-d...

Potentially dumb question: if YouTube.js works in browser - can/has someone made a YouTube player that’s just a static page? Is there a need for a backend?

scosman on March 17, 2025 | [–]

To answer my own question: "To use YouTube.js in the browser, you must proxy requests through your own server"

modmodmod on March 17, 2025 | [–]

hey scosman, let me give it a try: I don't really know if it could work, but I have a feeling it won't work mainly due to CORS (regardless if the app is served from http or file protocol) in the browser

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