(youtube-dl) + web service + bookmarklet = play just the video/no Flash

ydlredirect-bookmarklet.js

javascript:(function(){window.location='http://localhost:8080?url='+window.btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(window.location)));})()

ydlredirect.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Install dependencies: # pip install youtube-dl cherrypy
import youtube_dl
import cherrypy
import base64

class YDLRedirect(object):
    @cherrypy.expose
    def index(self, url):
        ydl = youtube_dl.YoutubeDL()
        ydl.add_default_info_extractors()
        result = ydl.extract_info(base64.b64decode(url).decode('utf-8'), download=False)
        if 'entries' in result:
            video = result['entries'][0]
        else:
            video = result
        raise cherrypy.HTTPRedirect(video['url'])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cherrypy.config.update({'server.socket_host': '127.0.0.1'}) # just for localhost
    #cherrypy.config.update({'server.socket_host': '0.0.0.0'}) # everybody can access
    cherrypy.quickstart(YDLRedirect())