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Display Netflix Captions in PiP mode
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// Hit refresh when playing a Netflix video and paste the following code in your console. | |
// This script will replace the native captions by WebVTT captions that will work in PiP mode. | |
// Use the code here to trigger PiP in safari: https://gist.github.com/funkyremi/9d7b70285282d532c3f8c964810e7bf9 | |
const lang = 'fr'; | |
const hideNetflixCaptions = (() => { | |
const style = document.createElement("style"); | |
style.type = "text/css"; | |
const hideCc = ".player-timedtext {display: none !important;}"; | |
if (style.styleSheet) { | |
style.styleSheet.cssText = hideCc; | |
} else { | |
style.appendChild(document.createTextNode(hideCc)); | |
} | |
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(style); | |
})(); | |
const displayVtt = data => { | |
console.log("detail", data); | |
const textTrack = data.timedtexttracks.find(cc => cc.language === lang); | |
const textTrackUrls = | |
textTrack.ttDownloadables["webvtt-lssdh-ios8"].downloadUrls; | |
const url = textTrackUrls[Object.keys(textTrackUrls)[0]]; | |
// Wait for the video element to add new text track | |
const interval = setInterval(() => { | |
const video = document.querySelector("video"); | |
if (video) { | |
clearInterval(interval); | |
const track = document.createElement("track"); | |
track.kind = "captions"; | |
track.label = "Subtitle"; | |
track.src = url; | |
track.addEventListener("load", function() { | |
video.textTracks[0].mode = "showing"; | |
}); | |
video.appendChild(track); | |
} | |
}, 100); | |
}; | |
const hijackJson = ((parse, stringify) => { | |
JSON.parse = function(text) { | |
const data = parse(text); | |
if ( | |
data && | |
data.result && | |
data.result.timedtexttracks && | |
data.result.movieId | |
) { | |
displayVtt(data.result); | |
} | |
return data; | |
}; | |
JSON.stringify = function(data) { | |
if (data && data.params && data.params.profiles) { | |
data.params.profiles.unshift("webvtt-lssdh-ios8"); | |
} | |
return stringify(data); | |
}; | |
})(JSON.parse, JSON.stringify); |
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