[Lazarus] Using Chrome API in Lazarus - possible on Linux?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 6 Dec 2020, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote:

> I have been looking for ways to create a video downloader for myself
> using FPC/Lazarus. I already created a video editor using PasLibVlc
> and ffmpeg and it works pretty well for what I want to do. It needs
> VLC to be installed in order to show videos and adjust playback speed
> and audio sync etc.
>
> I also would like to make a video downloader with functions not found
> in programs like for example youtube-dl, specifically being able to
> download from a streaming site starting from past times.
>
> But it clearly should be possible since the browsers (both Chrome and
> Firefox) have the ability of moving backwards inside the stream and
> view stuff that was played say a couple of hours ago.
>
> Now I have seen a project on-line which uses C# and apparently the
> Chrome API (since it is a requirement to have Chrome installed).
> But the author has not published any sources so I cannot see *how* it
> is being done...
> And I cannot use that product because I need the downloader to be
> running on Linux.
>
> Is there someone here who has used the Chrome API with Lazarus for
> anything video related and is willing to share?

I never managed to get the Chrome API to work on linux, but an effort is
currently underway to make the chromium browser available in Lazarus on all
supported platforms.

Michael.