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I use Logitech media server (LMS) to play my music on a DLNA device. The server also has a youtube plugin and can play the sound of youtube videos if a specific url, which contains the youtube video id, is opened. For example http://myLMS:9000/status.html?p0=playlist&p1=play&p2=youtube://wS1drVzZPmw&player=myPlayer.

But it only plays back a single video this way. And I'd like them to autoplay, the way they do when youtube is accessed with a browser.

One way to do this, would be to open a browser and read the youtube url every time it changes, somehow, extract the video id from the url, and then forward it to LMS by generating a link, similar to the one I posted above, but containing the id of the video, that was extracted from the youtube url.

The generating and opening of the custom link for the LMS should not be too difficult, by using tasker, I think. But I suspect getting the url from the browser and constantly checking if it changed, would be more difficult.

So - is it possible to read the URL of currently open tab in a browser, every time it changes, and store it as text somewhere?

Or maybe the youtube app on android stores the id of the video it is currently playing somewhere. That might work also, if we could read it somehow. I think the youtube app also autoplays the videos.

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  • I am a bit confused here. This logitech software seems to be supported on Windows, Linux and Mac, so I assume you are running it on a non-Android device. Your DLNA client is probably an Android device though where you listen the music. So, you want to keep sending a YouTube URL from that client on your Android to that server. Did I get this correctly? Which DLNA client are you using?
    – Firelord ♦
    Jan 31, 2020 at 3:38
  • Yes, the server is running on a NAS device, and I would like to send the server custom links, that would be generated on an android device. I'm not sure what exactly is a "DLNA client", but the music is streamed from the server to a Yamaha device, which then outputs analog signal. I can use any device that is connected to LAN and has a browser, to control the server.
    – mnd
    Jan 31, 2020 at 6:12

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Apps on Android can't access data of other apps. Therefore you can't just read the current URL of a web browser like chrome.

If this would be possible every app with advertisements would do so and report all the URLs you are visiting in the web browser back to some ad network. As you can see such an interface would be a privacy nightmare.

Hence the only chance to get what you want to do it inside of a browser-plugin. However I don't think that there is any browser-plugin for Chrome, Firefox or another web browser on Android that would do what you want. Hence you would have to develop your own web browser plugin (please note that development topics are off-topic on this site).

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  • I thought that by having root we could access the intents of other apps, or something, and maybe the info about URLs could be stored in these intents, but I don't have enough knowledge yet to try to find them myself. And of course I would not like 3rd party apps analyzing my browsing history, it's enough that google does that already. And software development is over my head, but I think I had googled something about a firefox plugin that can copy the urls of open tabs, and I think android was mentioned also, so will have to try that for myself.
    – mnd
    Jan 31, 2020 at 6:48

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