YouTube RichPresence

YouTube RichPresence is a Chrome extension that tracks your YouTube activity (video playing, browsing, searching, and watching Shorts) and posts the activity to a localhost server. This activity is then displayed on Discord using pypresence. This is a beta version with a lot of imporovements to be done.

Features

• Detects when a YouTube video is playing, paused, or when browsing/searching.
• Sends activity data (including video title, author, URL, etc.) to a localhost server.
• Updates your Discord status with the activity information.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• Google Chrome
• Flask
• pypresence
• flask-cors

Installation

Step 1: Set Up the Chrome Extension

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/JanLewDev/YouTube_RichPresence.git
   cd YouTube_RichPresence

2. Open chrome://extensions/ in Chrome
3. Enable "Developer Mode"
4. Click on "Load unpacked" and select the extension directory from this repository.
5. Install the required Python packages with

   pip install flask pypresence flask-cors

6. Go to the Discord Developer Portal and create an application
7. Update richpresence.py with the generated applicaiton id
8. Run the Flask server and the presence updater with

   python richpresence.py
   

File structure

. 
├── extension  
│   ├── manifest.json  
│   ├── background.js  
│   ├── content.js  
│   ├── popup.html  
│   └── icons  
│       └── yt.jpg  
└── richpresence.py