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Send to CyTube

Send to CyTube

One click on a YouTube page, and the video lands in your CyTube queue - using the session you already have open.
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What this is

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Send to CyTube is a Chrome Manifest V3 extension. It adds a floating button to YouTube watch pages and a context-menu entry on YouTube links. Activating either one queues that video into a CyTube channel you already have open in another tab.

The repository also ships cytube-sponsorblock.js, a standalone channel-JS script you paste into your CyTube channel’s customization settings. It pulls community segment data from the SponsorBlock API and seeks past sponsor segments during playback.

Why it works this way

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The extension never signs in to CyTube, stores no credentials, and talks to no backend of its own. It injects a short function into the CyTube tab you point it at and emits the very same socket.io event the CyTube web client emits when you add media yourself:

socket.emit("queue", { id, type: "yt", pos, temp });

Because the emit happens inside your existing page, it inherits your existing connection, your login or guest name, and your channel permissions. Nothing is impersonated and nothing is proxied.

Features

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One-click send

A floating Send to CyTube button on YouTube watch pages sends the current video using your saved defaults - no dialog, no tab picking.

Right-click any link

A Send to CyTube context-menu item on YouTube video links works from the homepage, subscriptions, and search results.

No credentials, no server

Reuses the socket in your open CyTube tab. No login, no API keys, no telemetry.

Real confirmation

Listens for CyTube’s queue and queueFail replies and reports the actual outcome instead of assuming success.

Least-privilege host access

CyTube origins are requested at runtime through optional_host_permissions, one host at a time, only when you first target it.

SponsorBlock for the room

Optional channel JS that merges adjacent skip ranges and seeks past them, with a status pill and leader-aware sync.

Supported YouTube URLs

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watch, youtu.be, shorts, live, and embed links on youtube.com, www.youtube.com, m.youtube.com, music.youtube.com, and youtu.be. Every URL is reduced to its 11-character video ID before anything is sent.

Where to go next

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