A couple weeks ago I reached out to the dev that makes the Reddit Comments for Youtube extension and asked him to enable support for Lemmy. The developer was already rewriting the extension and decided to implement Lemmy support as well! Here's the GitHub and FireFox links. It also available for Chrome iirc.

The comments appear after you select an instance in the extension's menu on any youtube video that has been posted to any Lemmy instance with a full url without a timecode. Invidious links and Lemmy comments on invidious instances still aren't supported but since its supported by the Reddit comments it should be possible if someone submits a PR.

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[–] clearleaf@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Did they change the API fees at Reddit? I thought stuff like that was supposed to be impossible now.

[–] nix@merv.news 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The developer doesn't use the api, they're using Reddit's free JSON endpoint

[–] starman@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's the difference?

[–] nix@merv.news 10 points 11 months ago

I don’t really understand it since I know almost nothing about programming. But if I understand it correctly (which I probably don’t) the JSON endpoint is just a static set of information you can pull data from? While the API would be able to read and write data and have more precise information pulled. Not sure though because you can comment and vote from the extension so it’s somewhat interactive still

[–] witchdoctor@lemmy.basedcount.com 4 points 11 months ago

Never heard of scraping?

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This in freetube would be amazing!

[–] nix@merv.news 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hopefully FreeTube implements the feature https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/4434

[–] pmarcilus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They've said that they are not going to implement it so not a great news

[–] nix@merv.news 7 points 11 months ago

Seems like it’s not something they want to work on. they might accept a PR though

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Nice one!

[–] witchdoctor@lemmy.basedcount.com 9 points 11 months ago

This would be cool for Invidious too

[–] solariplex@slrpnk.net 8 points 11 months ago

Neat stuff!

[–] cynber@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is amazing, thank you for reaching out to the dev!

This was on the list of ideas for InstanceAssistant, but I didn't know where to start. It is great news that it was added to the original extension.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago

Great news!