SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy-preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros, and reminders to subscribe, and skipping to the point with highlights. The extension also features an upvote/downvote system with a weighted random-based distribution algorithm. Once one person submits this information, everyone else with this extension will skip right over the sponsored segment. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that let's anyone submit the start and end time's of sponsored segments of YouTube videos.

Features

  • The dataset and API are now being usd in some ports as well as a neural network
  • You can read the API docs
  • You must have Node.js 16 and npm installed
  • Develop with a clean profile and hot reloading
  • With this extension, you will automatically skip YouTube sponsors
  • This is open source and the entire database is public

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License

GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 3.0 (LGPLv3)

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Programming Language

TypeScript

Related Categories

TypeScript Browsers, TypeScript Internet Software, TypeScript Browser Extensions and Plugins, TypeScript Neural Network Libraries

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2022-05-06