A little off the beaten path.
Picked by people with taste.
Shaped by yours.
Nothing on this frequency yet. Try another filter.
Human curation comes first. Your likes and saves tune the selection. A little room stays open for the unexpected.
Watch directly in your signed-in YouTube app or browser for Premium, background listening and your usual playback controls.
“Play here” uses YouTube’s standard player. Premium depends on your browser allowing YouTube cookies. Your Google login stays with YouTube.
Open YouTube ↗Bring your recent YouTube likes into your taste profile. They teach the feed what you like; they don’t dilute the curated collection.
Create a Web application OAuth client in your own Google Cloud project, enable YouTube Data API v3, and register this exact redirect:
https://afterhours.becker.im/oauth/callbackStore the client ID and secret in the server’s central keys.json → afterhours, then rerun scripts/deploy.py. After that, Connect YouTube opens Google’s authorization screen.
Send ten fresh recommendations to a private playlist called Afterhours. Open it on your phone, desktop or TV.
YouTube doesn’t offer full watch history through its API. Import your Google Takeout history to mark familiar videos and gently inform your taste.
Export YouTube history ↗Select YouTube → history → JSON. Upload watch-history.json or watch-history.html here. No ZIP needed. A watch is a weak signal; a like counts much more.
Likes and saves are the strongest positive signals. “Less like this” pushes related work down. Skips are gentle nudges. Actual time played here is a weak signal; opening a YouTube link never counts as completing a video.
The feed compares titles, artists, tags and curator context. It balances relevance with variety across sources and artists, and puts an exploratory choice in every fifth slot. It learns across your devices when you use the same access code. Watching outside this site is reflected when you import history; YouTube likes update on the daily sync after connection.
Only verified YouTube links from selected editorial articles enter the collection. A live metadata check confirms the video exists; regional restrictions and disabled embedding can still affect playback.