Native application port

[optim77]

In order to make the application more accessible to non-programmers, people who do not like to have a lot of tabs in the browser, it would be nice to make a standalone application that runs from an .exe file. The best idea, since the application is written in typescript, would be to make a port to Electron. Which creates applications for any platform (win, mac, linux). It would be worthwhile to start doing this now that the project is relatively small. What do you think about this idea?

[n-ce]

I think it is already installable as a PWA.
I do have plans for a cross platform native application using flutter with on device data extraction but it is quite far-fetched.

[n-ce]

Hello @optim77 , I have reconsidered some things. What we have now is a complete application, so it is fertile grounds for native app conversion. I have seen that Tauri 2 supports as many platforms as Flutter does.
I have also checked farm which is a replacement for vite, has a template for Tauri 2.
So what we can do is start a tauri 2+vanilla project in farm and slowly port this vite project's files to it.
Would you be interested in taking this up?

[optim77]

yes, as much as possible I can try, I have not had to deal with Tauri so far but I will try, if I have any problems or need support I will get back to you

[optim77]

#282 created PR

[n-ce]

Although it is outside the scope of the current PR, we should explore ways to extract youtube playback data ondevice taking advantage of the rust backend.

[n-ce]

Although it is outside the scope of the current PR, we should explore ways to extract youtube playback data ondevice taking advantage of the rust backend.

there's Newpipe extractor (Java), yt-dlp (Python) and YouTube.js (Typescript)

[optim77]

What specifically do we need the data for?

[n-ce]

https://github.com/n-ce/ytify/wiki#data-fetching-history

the data is source of all playback (and many other facilities) that takes place in the app

We do not fetch data from YT but through APIs like piped and invidious.

Our web client cannot fetch playback data directly from yt like applications like newpipe can because of browser restrictions.

But now that we are delving into the app land, we have an oppurtunity to do so.

[n-ce]

Application Development Team :
@optim77
@Shashwat-CODING
@AnirbanBiswasGamer

Tauri seems to be too complicated. For now we will backtrack. This does not mean the progress on #282 is not fruitful, it will be later looked into when tauri is ready.

That brings us to Electron (mac, linux, windows) and Capacitor (android). A part of this change is the requirement of on-device data extraction and streaming via https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js, which seems to be simpler to implement on these frameworks than through rust via tauri.

[Shashwat-CODING]

Youtubei.js needs additional large logics for signature decryption we must use innertube.js which works perfect for our purpose.

[n-ce]

@optim77 @Shashwat-CODING @AnirbanBiswasGamer
This is a very successful project
https://github.com/Materialious/Materialious
uses capacitor for android and electron for desktop and uses youtubei.js for on-device extraction
please take a look at it