android youtube: share a youtube video TO my app?

Question

The built in YouTube App for tablets has a sharing-option. For example: I watch a video in the YouTube app and click the button to share. Bluetooth, Googlemail, and Dropbox appear for me. I wonder how i can list my app there? Which intent-filter has my app to have? How do i get the video url then? Any idea? Thanks.

score 42 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 24 '12 at 22:49

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This worked for me. Add this intent filter to your manifest file to make your application appear in the share list of the youtube application.

<intent-filter>
   <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
   <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />              
   <data android:host="www.youtube.com" android:mimeType="text/*" />
</intent-filter>

Then to retrieve it in your activity, use this :

Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
 String value1 = extras.getString(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT);

Here you are!

answered Jun 24 '12 at 22:49

Ditraoult Gilbert Olivier

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Why the hell does this one work, but this one (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/525063/android-respond-to-url-in-intent) doesn't? – PedroD Aug 03 '15 at 14:04
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It works but android:scheme is missing from , what should we put there? – PedroD Aug 03 '15 at 14:06
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You may add `android:scheme="http"` to ` – arc May 15 '16 at 09:22
This answer doesn't work exclusively for YouTube, you can share any text to your Activity, if you use this `intent-filter`. I thought that this was because of the missing scheme but adding a `https` scheme removes `myApp` from the IntentChooser altogether. – Samuel Bushi Feb 11 '18 at 19:45

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '20 at 14:57

I played around a bit and ended with this solution:

<intent-filter android:label="My YT Handler">
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
    <data android:host="youtu.be" android:mimeType="text/*" />
</intent-filter>

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 14 '17 at 17:16

It looks like Youtube have changed share intent so for me only solution that works is the one I copied from android Telegram manifest. Solution is tested and working on Marshamallow 6.0.1 and Lolipop 5.1.1.

        <intent-filter android:label="@string/app_name">
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
            <data android:mimeType="*/*"/>
        </intent-filter>

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