A small tool built to remove a bit of the hassle from sharing YouTube videos to Instagram Stories.
It creates a nice image "card" out of a YouTube link, which can be added to a Story along with the link, making the story more visually appealing. It works with both YouTube and YouTube Music.
- Not affiliated with YouTube or Instagram.
- Uses only public APIs, in accordance with their terms of service.
- Does not collect or store any data.
- Creates a "card": an image out of a YouTube or YouTube Music link you provide.
- The image is the video thumbnail, with the video title and channel name added along with a border.
- The Android app shares the image directly to the Instagram Story Editor.
- It would be nice to share a brief excerpt of the video or audio, but that's very much against YouTube's terms of service.
- We could use YouTube's video preview animations, but those aren't exposed via the Data API. Their ID, too, is obfuscated, so guessing them isn't an option either.
- The image shared to Instagram is just an image, not a link. The user has to add the link manually, which is a UX hassle we can only mitigate. It is not possible to create a link sticker programmatically.
We use GitHub Issues to track features and bugs.
Long term roadmap:
- Create cards for any URL (using the Open Graph metadata).
- Have a web app version.
The app is in closed testing phase. If you'd like to try it, email armin@sarmin-softworks.hu, and I will add you to the tester list.
Alternatively, download the APK from the latest release.
Little Card is an Android app built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. See the app Readme for development instructions.
Little Card was created by Ármin Scipiades, under the moniker Sarmin Softworks.
Little Card is licensed under the MIT License.