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How to customize youtube page?

Is there any websites providing javascript-based API for page customization?

  • Users of SNS sites often require some page customization by themselves. Such as hiding some post on facebook newsfeed, use some browser extension to modify youtube page, etc. Most time these are done by run extra javascript code provided by browser plugin like TemperMonkey. But to modify a web page based on information in DOM seems a hard work, and also difficult to keep up to date. Thus, I wonder why there are no websites provide some API, like well-defined javascript function for customize. Like how those posts are arranged. Or, there are technical difficulties, or just don't worth to do that ? Or, maybe just I don't know these sites yet.

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    You may want to take a look at SiteApps. It provides means to install small applications on Web pages without great programming knowledge. I am not sure if you will find the exact applications you want there, you need to check it out. http://www.siteapps.com/

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One possible reason is security.  A 3rd party website API would likely need to run Javascript in your browser to dynamically rearrange content within the DOM in your browser while you're on Facebook, or you would need to surf Facebook using their site as a proxy (either as a web proxy, or by surfing to their site and they serve up Facebook's content).  Any of these present a way for the third party site to act as you on Facebook, possibly stealing your information, and also possibly violate Facebook's Terms of Service.  Essentially what you are talking about is a personal agent (digital).  They are coming, but they won't be from the walled gardens like Facebook in my opinion.  Instead they will come from a new breed of social network that is distributed and puts user rights first.  I am working on technology to support this at OASIS, in the XDI Technical Committee.  Other projects also will support this, things like Pubsubhubbub, Salmon, Webfinger, Locker, http://Connect.me, and others.

William Barnhill

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