YouTube Archive++

ytarchive.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name        YouTube Archive++
// @namespace   534
// @match       https://web.archive.org/web/*
// @grant       none
// @version     1.3
// @author      534
// @description Improves Wayback Machine YouTube archives. View legacy CIDs, disable themeRefresh, and make das_captcha less annoying.
// @run-at      document-body
// ==/UserScript==

// note: the run-at above is necessary for the themeRefresh disabler to work, no other value can reliably set the relevant experiment flag

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() { // We need to run this code once the DOM has finished loading, unlike the themeRefresh disabler
// das_captcha/terminated redirect
if (document.getElementsByClassName('impatient')[0]) { // This is the wayback machine's Redirecting... page.
  var vqx = document.getElementsByClassName('impatient')[0].parentElement.children[5].innerText; // the url
  console.log(vqx);
  if (vqx.indexOf('das_captcha')>0 || vqx.indexOf('index?ytsession')>0 || vqx.indexOf('consent.youtube.com')>0) { // index?ytsession is for terminated channels, consent.youtube.com is for GDPR pages
    var pn = window.location.pathname;
    var dt = pn.split('/')[2]; // date in url
    window.location.pathname = pn.replace(dt, '*'); // this changes the date to "*" which takes you to the generic wayback date picker page for the url
  }}


// Legacy CID viewer
// This was the old CID system that utilized the same incremental 3DES system as video IDs, blog posts, and a few other parts of YT old and modern.
// Useful when trying to identify the exact registration ID number of a 2005 channel provided you have the CS ID list.

// 2009(?)-2011
if (document.getElementById('aProfileBlockUser')) {
  var channel_id = document.getElementById('aProfileBlockUser').getAttribute('onclick').split("'")[1];
  var built_html = `<div class="show_info outer-box-bg-as-border">
    <div class="profile-info-label" style="float:left;font-weight:bold;">CID:</div>
      <div class="profile-info-value" style="float:right;">${channel_id}</div>
    <div class="cb"></div>
  </div>`;
  document.getElementsByClassName('profile_info')[0].insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', built_html);
}

// 2007
var alinks = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
var addedid = false;
for (i=0;i<alinks.length;i++){
  var clink = alinks[i];
  if (!addedid && clink.getAttribute('href') && clink.getAttribute('href').split('friend_id=').length == 2) {
    var channel_id = clink.getAttribute('href').split('friend_id=')[1];
    var built_html = `<span class="smallText">CID:</span> <b>${channel_id}</b><br>`;
    document.getElementsByClassName('padT8')[0].insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', built_html);
    addedid = true;
  }
}
/*if (document.getElementById('aProfileAddFriend') && document.getElementById('aProfileAddFriend').getAttribute('href') && document.getElementById('aProfileAddFriend').getAttribute('href').split('friend_id=').length == 2) {
  var channel_id = document.getElementById('aProfileAddFriend').getAttribute('href').split('friend_id=')[1];
  var built_html = `<span class="smallText">CID:</span> <b>${channel_id}</b><br>`;
  document.getElementsByClassName('padT8')[0].insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', built_html);
}
if (document.getElementById('b4_i4') && document.getElementById('b4_i4').getAttribute('href').split('friend_id=').length == 2) {
  var channel_id = document.getElementById('b4_i4').getAttribute('href').split('friend_id=')[1];
  var built_html = `<span class="smallText">CID:</span> <b>${channel_id}</b><br>`;
  document.getElementsByClassName('padT8')[0].insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', built_html);
}*/
  console.log("[YTA++] Stage 2 loaded, userscript is finished.")
}); // closes the settimeout from above
// Disable the themeRefresh redirect if your browser/system theme is set to dark (on modern archives)
try{
  unsafeWindow.yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_legacy_browsers = true;
} catch{}
console.log("[YTA++] Stage 1 loaded.")