Automatically unmutes the sound on autoplayed videos on Twitter.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Twitter unmute sound on autoplayed videos
// @namespace http://zezombye.dev/
// @version 0.1
// @description Automatically unmutes the sound on autoplayed videos on Twitter.
// @author Zezombye
// @match https://twitter.com/*
// @icon https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=twitter.com
// @license MIT
// ==/UserScript==
/*
Twitter's code is so unnecessarily complex. I could just get the video element
and do video.volume = 1 right? But nooo the twitter (sorry, X) engineers had
to create the AudioElement within pure JS. So the only way I found to access it
was to use the "m" hotkey to toggle mute. It isn't 100% reliable though. I
couldn't manage to trigger the click event.
*/
(function() {
'use strict';
setInterval(function() {
let videos = document.getElementsByTagName("video");
for (let video of videos) {
if (video.hasAttribute("has-unmute-play-event")) {
continue;
}
video.onplay = async function(e) {
let videoKeyboardRegister = e.target.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.children[1];
if (videoKeyboardRegister.hasAttribute("has-been-played-once")) {
return;
}
//console.log(videoKeyboardRegister);
videoKeyboardRegister.setAttribute("has-been-played-once", "true");
//videoKeyboardRegister.onkeypress = function(e) {console.log(e)};
//Sometimes videos don't play if it's too low. Setting it to 50 is too low. So far on 100 no problem.
await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 100));
//console.log("owo");
videoKeyboardRegister.focus({preventScroll: true});
videoKeyboardRegister.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent("keypress", {key: "m", charCode: 109, bubbles: false, cancelable: true, code: "Semicolon", isTrusted: true, keyCode: 109, which: 109}));
}
video.setAttribute("has-unmute-play-event", "true");
}
}, 100);
})();