Skip to content

MVP — scrapes html for <a> (you can adapt this) with href including mp4. Includes browser bookmarklet to pop up a window to play videos. Helps you skip ads.

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

davidlowry/mp4-scraper

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 

History

6 Commits
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

mp4-scraper

MVP — scrapes html for <a> (you can adapt this) with href including mp4. Includes browser bookmarklet to pop up a window to play videos. Helps you skip ads.

###Installation: Include a bookmarklet as per bookmarklet.txt, you can use the test server to load the latest code (uptime not guaranteed) Advanced: Drop this file onto your web server and amend the bookmarklet code to reflect it

###Purpose: Scrape web page to find unique <a href="*.mp4"/>, magically generate html5 video player and play the video. Skip irritating pre-buffer ads on your local news website... if they use mp4 video!

###Todo: Make it much more general

  • find m4v/ogv/etc.
  • find mp4(etc) urls embedded in javascript etc.
  • possibly stop/mute the jwplayer (or whatever) the video is being driven by originally
  • gauge popularity of avoiding the popup window, overlay an iframe instead??
  • Feel free to contribute solutions to this if you like.

###Notes: This is a MVP release - minimum viable product

###Contact: djlowry at google mail dot com

About

MVP — scrapes html for <a> (you can adapt this) with href including mp4. Includes browser bookmarklet to pop up a window to play videos. Helps you skip ads.

Resources

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

No packages published