# YePpHa/YouTubeCenter

YouTube Center is a userscript designed to expand the functionality of YouTube. It includes the ability to download the video you're watching, auto selecting your preferred video quality and much more.

Repository: https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/youtubecenter
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: chrome, userscript, youtube
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-04-12T19:04:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4815, "days_push": 3065, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2905, forks 510 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:29.039710+00:00)

## What it is
YouTube Center is a browser extension/userscript that enhances YouTube with features like video downloading, automatic quality selection, and many UI improvements. Development stopped after YouTube's 2017 framework change made updates impractical.

## Use cases
- download youtube videos from the browser
- auto-select preferred video quality on youtube
- remove youtube ads and clutter
- customize the youtube player layout
- enhance youtube with a userscript

## When to avoid
- you use the current YouTube layout - the project is abandoned and largely broken
- you need maintained, updated browser tooling
- you want a supported video downloader for modern YouTube

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: abandoned
- function: browser-extension, video-processing, developer-tools
- domain: browser-extensions, media, web-development
- platform: browser, browser-extension
- tags: userscript, youtube, video-downloader, video-quality, discontinued

## Member repositories
- YePpHa/YouTubeCenter (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:29.039710+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:34:30.372344+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:29.039710+00:00, sha 537791a4aaab)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.