[Feature] Open in spotube instead of spotify

[EsmailELBoBDev2]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Category of the Feature

UX Improvements

Credits

Me

Pain

I have spotube on phone (android) and when someone sends me spotify link, it opens in spotify app and it would be nice if spotube can catch the url and play it directly? and maybe the ability to search by spotify/yt URL too.

Suggested Solution

Spotube opens when I click on spotify/yt music link

Useful resources/references

I really have no idea 😂

[KRTirtho]

That's not possible due to the protocol spotify:// is a registered protocol and the spotify.com is a registered domain, only apps with allowed appIds can open those links

[EsmailELBoBDev2]

oh, i thought it's matter of if else statement. Will, thanks for the info :)

[nki3]

Is this really true? I cannot speak for spotify links specifically but many open source apps are able to open urls from other official apps such as LibreTube, Musify, InnerTune for youtube.com and its link variants as well as every open source Twitter client I've used for twitter.com and its variants. Is there a difference between spotify.com and twitter.com?

[karniv00l]

@KRTirtho you should be able to register spotify:// protocol for Spotube (see: https://pub.dev/packages/app_links).
However, there should be only one app that uses a given protocol (i.e. Spotify not installed).

I use Spotify, but I was able to switch apps in Firefox just for testing purposes:

when you go to the open.spotify.com/... page, it opens the spotube://... url:

[KRTirtho]

Never knew it even existed https://pub.dev/packages/app_links 😅

[KRTirtho]

Linux is not supported by any of them :")

[nki3]

Linux is not supported by any of them :")

I have heard you can basically get the same functionality on Linux by modifying the .desktop file, but on the note of Android specifically, it seems there is still an open issue (#508). Is this something you hope to implement in the future? I think many Android users would appreciate it. Not being able to just tap links my friends send me of their spotify playlists is a just bit frustrating for an otherwise amazing UX.

[selurvedu]

I would appreciate this feature on desktop.

[Rootkit-]

This would be very nice. If its made I'll make a redirect extension and give you guys the code.

[anarcat]

this would be a killer feature for anonymous users. as it is now, the app is not that useful for us as you can basically just browse suggested things... you can't search, you can't open existing pages / groups you know exist, etc...

[karniv00l]

Linux is not supported by any of them :")

It's now supported in the newest version: llfbandit/app_links#20

[KRTirtho]

Yes finally it can be implemented

[KRTirtho]

Anyone using Linux here, please test if it works for the platform. I am unable to test it for the platform.
Binary available in nightly or https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/actions/runs/7231912830