VBAChromeDevProtocol VS btfs

I used to scan all the tabs in open browser windows to preserve all open URLs.

See also https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/ with Playwright et. al., even Excel VBA: https://github.com/PerditionC/VBAChromeDevProtocol

Use dev tools protocol

Automating chrome via accessibility or via devtools protocol

If you're interested in XPath/ QuerySelectors, there is another VBA + Chrome project on Github which seeks to do much the same thing, though I haven't looked to see if there is jsEval equivalent, though there might be. But it definitely allows for QuerySelection of DOM elements; the following is an example from the project:

Something in a similar vein: BTFS, mount a torrent file (or magnet link) as a read only drive https://github.com/johang/btfs

It's really good, and use it a lot of times

Github Page

Some systems are more appropriate than just those options, but it requires player cooperation.

For instance on Android, NOVA Video Player supports torrent streaming. Or btplay from https://github.com/johang/btfs .

The way they work is better for the network, because it asks only for the N next MB from current position to be available ASAP, but the rest can be downloaded randomly to help the network like a standard client would do.