YouTube Music

Electron wrapper around YouTube Music featuring:

• Native look & feel, aims at keeping the original interface
• Framework for custom plugins: change YouTube Music to your needs (style, content, features), enable/disable plugins in one click

Download

You can check out the latest release to quickly find the latest version.

Arch Linux

Install the youtube-music-bin package from the AUR. For AUR installation instructions, take a look at this wiki page.

Available plugins:

• Ad Blocker: block all ads and tracking out of the box
• Auto confirm when paused: when the "Continue Watching?" modal appears, automatically click "Yes"
• Disable autoplay: makes every song start in "paused" mode
• Discord: show your friends what you listen to with Rich Presence
• Downloader: downloads MP3 directly from the interface (youtube-dl)
• Hide video player: no video in the interface when playing music
• In-app menu: gives bars a fancy, dark look
• Last.fm: scrobbles support
• Navigation: next/back navigation arrows directly integrated in the interface, like in your favorite browser
• No Google Login: remove Google login buttons and links from the interface
• Notifications: display a notification when a song starts playing
• Playback speed: listen fast, listen slow! Adds a slider that controls song speed
• Precise volume: customizable volume steps for more comfort, allows controlling the volume precisely using mousewheel
• Shortcuts: use your usual shortcuts (media keys, Ctrl/CMD + F…) to control YouTube Music, you may setup custom global hotkeys for play/pause/next/previous song
• SponsorBlock: skips non-music parts
• Taskbar media control: control app from your Windows taskbar
• Touchbar: custom TouchBar layout for macOS

Dev

git clone https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music
cd youtube-music
yarn
yarn start

Build your own plugins

Using plugins, you can:

• manipulate the app - the BrowserWindow from electron is passed to the plugin handler
• change the front by manipulating the HTML/CSS

Creating a plugin

Create a folder in plugins/YOUR-PLUGIN-NAME:

• if you need to manipulate the BrowserWindow, create a file back.js with the following template:

module.exports = win => {
	// win is the BrowserWindow object
};

• if you need to change the front, create a file front.js with the following template:

module.exports = () => {
	// This function will be called as a preload script
	// So you can use front features like `document.querySelector`
};

Common use cases

• injecting custom CSS: create a style.css file in the same folder then:

const path = require("path");
const { injectCSS } = require("../utils");

// back.js
module.exports = win => {
	injectCSS(win.webContents, path.join(__dirname, "style.css"));
};

• changing the HTML:

// front.js
module.exports = () => {
	// Remove the login button
	document.querySelector(".sign-in-link.ytmusic-nav-bar").remove();
};

• communicating between the front and back: can be done using the ipcMain module from electron. See utils.js file and example in navigation plugin.

Build

yarn build

Builds the app for macOS, Linux, and Windows, using electron-builder.

Tests

yarn test

Uses Spectron to test the app.

License

MIT © th-ch