WebMediaShare vs HTTP-Shortcuts

WebMediaShare

DEPRECATED ⛔️ A fork of WebApps to allow sharing media from websites for the purpose of casting/sharing/downloading (by tobykurien)

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HTTP-Shortcuts

Android app to create home screen shortcuts that trigger arbitrary HTTP requests (by Waboodoo)

Android http-requests HTTP HTTP Client home-automation

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WebMediaShare		HTTP-Shortcuts
	Project
1	Mentions	7
68	Stars	918
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	9.4
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
Xtend	Language	Kotlin
MIT License	License	MIT License

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WebMediaShare

Posts with mentions or reviews of WebMediaShare. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-04.

A chromecast alternative
5 projects | /r/fossdroid | 4 Sep 2022

Sendtokodi addon (https://github.com/firsttris/plugin.video.sendtokodi) and this app (https://github.com/tobykurien/WebMediaShare) for web videos (by sharing url to Kore)

HTTP-Shortcuts

Posts with mentions or reviews of HTTP-Shortcuts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-01.

Toggle devices with home screen widget?
2 projects | /r/googlehome | 1 Mar 2023

I use https://http-shortcuts.rmy.ch/ and https://www.home-assistant.io/ to accomplish exactly this but that's a fair amount of setup alongside Google home and requires another running computer for the home assistant application.
A chromecast alternative
5 projects | /r/fossdroid | 4 Sep 2022

Playback can also be controlled by HTTP commands (Commands - https://github.com/warren-bank/Android-ExoPlayer-AirPlay-Receiver) via HTTP Shortcuts (https://github.com/Waboodoo/HTTP-Shortcuts) or Shortcuts on IOS.
⟳ 3 apps added, 55 updated at f-droid.org
11 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 17 Jul 2022

HTTP Request Shortcuts (version 2.21.0): Submit HTTP Requests from Shortcuts on your Home Screen
HTTP-Shortcuts: Android app to create home screen shortcuts that trigger arbitr
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2022
⟳ 10 apps added, 74 updated at f-droid.org
43 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 21 Aug 2021

HTTP Request Shortcuts (version 2.7.0): Create home screen shortcuts that trigger arbitrary HTTP requests
⟳ 8 apps added, 48 updated at f-droid.org
46 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 31 Jul 2021

HTTP Request Shortcuts 2.6.0
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To that end, there is this: https://github.com/Waboodoo/HTTP-Shortcuts

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WebMediaShare and HTTP-Shortcuts you can also consider the following projects:

Android-ExoPlayer-AirPlay-Receiver - Android app to run on a set-top box and play video URLs "cast" to it with a stateless HTTP API (based on AirPlay v1).

SmartCookieWeb - A secure, open source web browser for Android.

Android-WebCast - Android app to extract video (file/stream) URLs from websites and watch them elsewhere (internal/external video player, Google Chromecast, ExoAirPlayer).

Catima - Catima, a Loyalty Card & Ticket Manager for Android [Moved to: https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android]

plugin.video.sendtokodi - :tv: plays various stream sites on kodi using youtube-dl

Nextcloud - ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

koreader - An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

Tutanota makes encryption easy - Tuta is an email service with a strong focus on security and privacy that lets you encrypt emails, contacts and calendar entries on all your devices.

pastey - A lightweight, self-hosted paste platform

RaumBaller - Old-school scrolling shoot 'em up game for Android

tensorflow-on-arm - TensorFlow for Arm

probe-android - OONI Probe Android