[FR] support search URLs

[ildar]

opening from external apps. Think URL intents should be added and such...

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[haux205]

I would like to work on this issue. I'm new to open source so can someone walk me through the process ?

[Stypox]

@haux205 yeah sure, you are welcome :-D

NewPipe uses a library called NewPipeExtractor to handle most service-specific things (such as parsing data). This also includes link handling, so you should change things there. So you probably have to take a look to YouTube's link handlers, or more specifically, the Youtube search query link handler (which currently is only able to generate urls).
Since no service so far ever needed to handle search urls you need to add the check in the function that handles all urls along with adding a new search link type.

Since the urls you will add have the same domain as normal youtube urls, you shouldn't need to change anything in the app's Android manifest. Handle search urls here in the in the MainActivity intent handler.

If you have any more questions or need help with setting up the environment, feel free to ask ;-)

[SydneyDrone]

I'm interested in fixing this issue, but I don't know the PR mentioned above has fixed this problem or not. Another question is that
I'm not sure the idea of fixing this issue is still the same.

[Stypox]

@SydneyDrone no, the PR mentioned above was closed. This should be solvable without too many issues, just follow the points in my comment above. Thanks :-)

[Sola0404]

Hi, I am a computer science student in ANU, and I really hope I could try to fix this issue and create PR for it. Could you please assign me to this issue? Thanks in advance!