It is nice to be able to watch YouTube (and other online videos) in a local player -- you might already have familiar keybindings, subtitle settings etc. CloudTube is a nice way to browse YouTube, however.

I propose a ytdl: "protocol" which works like this: when user opens a link of form ytdl:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456, player opens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456 using the built-in youtube-dl handler.

There's two ways CloudTube could support this:

1. adding a configuration option that replaces the player with a huge ytdl: link,

2. or just adding the link in the .button-container below the video.

What do you think?

Related:

• https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/806
• https://github.com/iina/iina/issues/3632