YouTube has some of the best courses on the internet. I have learned so many things from YouTube courses. And a few days ago I found another amazing course. It was a playlist. While I was watching lectures in that playlist, I realized that YouTube is too distracting—comment sections, recommendations, and what not.
So, I whipped out this simple tool that converts YouTube playlists into a distraction-free, course-like interface. Paste a YouTube playlist's URL, and it gives you a proper course. It tracks your progress, and it saves all of that in the local storage of your browser.
You can export your courses and their respective progress—it will give you a JSON file. So if you clear your browser data or if you want to watch those courses on your other devices, you can just import that JSON file, and you are good to go.
This tool is born out of my necessity; it might not be useful for everybody.
There’s one caveat, though; at least for non-tech-savvy people, you have to get a YouTube Data API key. Now it’s a free key that anybody can get from their Google account. You can try the steps given below, or you can watch this video if you prefer that.
Log in to Google Developers Console.Create a Google Cloud project.On the new project dashboard, click Enable APIs and services.In the library, navigate to YouTube Data API v3 under YouTube APIs.Enable the API.Create a credential (API key).
Now, I know some people don’t have an immediate use case for this tool, but they would still want to try this tool without going through all those steps to get an API key. That’s why I have preloaded some courses from YouTube that you can try out.
And yes, I have named it Coursium. Why? I don’t know. I’m making so many tools/projects these days that I’m not giving much thought to the names. I was confused between YouCourse and Coursium. I was 50-50 on both, so I arbitrarily chose Coursium.
Here’s the link: https://coursium.adviks.in