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CastBlock PHP

A utility to automatically skip sponsorship mentions in Youtube videos playing on your Chromecast.

This software is intended to run as a service in your home network, for example by running it on a Raspberry Pi or similar.

Heavily inspired by stephen304/castblock.

The sponsorship segments are provided by the Sponsorblock browser extension.

Features

• Automatically skip sponsorship segments in Youtube videos playing on Chromecast or Google Home mini devices.
• Detects new Chromecasts in your network, supports multiple Chromecasts.
• Protect your privacy and your unlisted videos by not sharing video IDs with the Sponsorblock API.
• Aims to have precise skipping of segments and prevent unnecessary skipping.
• Aims to have low CPU usage.

Installation

You need go-chromecast installed on your system, as well as PHP 7.2 or higher.

Download the castblock-php.phar file from the Releases page.

Usage

Run php castblock-php.phar on a device that is in the same network as your Chromecast device or devices.

For example, you can install it as a service with systemd or run it within screen.

By setting up a systemd service, you can have systemd automatically start castblock-php on system startup, persist the logs, monitor the process, and restart castblock-php automatically if needed. You can use castblock.service as an example systemd service. Documentation for how to install & use the service file is within the file itself.

Options

• --category: Select which category to skip. Repeat multiple times to skip multiple categories. Default: --category sponsor --category interaction.

You can adjust the debugging verbosity by adding -v, -vv or -vvv.

Contributions

Contributions via Issues or Pull Requests are welcomed.