Extraneous

A WebExtension for Invidious, written in TypeScript using Deno.

Development Roadmap

• Keep track of watched videos and higlight them
• DeArrow
  • Playlist, Watch Page, Feeds
  • Caching
  • Compliance with implementation details from DeArrow documentation
    • Thumbnail returned by branding
    • Thumbnail fallback
    • Title fallback
    • Title auto-formatting / Removal of auto-formatting characters
    • Only show trusted titles
  • Proper fallbacks
• Hide videos under certain duration or with title matching regex
• Additional Links
  • cobalt.tools in sidebar
• Create collections of channels

Installing

Firefox via AMO (recommended)

You can install extraneous for Firefox like any other extension by clicking here.

Manually

Firefox

1. Download the latest version of the extension
2. In Firefox Developer Edition (recommended) or Firefox Nightly, navigate to about:config and set xpinstall.signatures.required to false
3. Navigate to about:addons and open the cogwheel dropdown menu.
4. Click Install Add-On From File... and select the zip file in the dialog
5. Press confirm on the warning that pops up

Chromium-based

There is no official listing for extraneous in the Chrome Web Store. Support offered for Chromium is limited, but the extension should work nonetheless.

1. Download the latest version of the extension.
2. Extract the extension.zip into a separate folder.
3. Navigate to chrome://extensions.
4. Enable Developer mode by clicking the toggle in the top-right corner.
5. Click Load unpacked and select the directory you extracted the extension into.
6. A "safety check" will pop up. Choose to keep the extension.