ImprovedTube

Powerful but lightweight extension to enrich your video experience & content selection.

Report a bug · Request feature · Contribute · Donate

Install

Store	Version
Chrome Web Store	4.0.1.17
Microsoft Edge Addons	3.800
Firefox Add-ons	4.0.1.17
Opera Add-ons	3.920
Whale Store	3.800
or install manually	latest

Contributing

For more info on how to contribute please see the contribution wiki.

Roadmap

Finding developers and patreons All bugs & wishes 🛈ToolTips & documentation Avoiding CPU-rendering by default Smart player buttons for all <video> Smart content-filtering & discovery Full-page GUI, watch-history, dashboard Integrating data #1452, SB / NB etc. Integrating code / features like YCS, YR, NY, IC

   

Long 'ugly' Readme.md:

«Improve YouTube!»   

/ImprovedTube/ is a lightweight & powerful extension to enrich your experience & enable your choice.

[Report a bug] · [Request feature] · [Donate] · [Features]

Critiques
by (only ~ 100) 'Might be the best YouTube Extension Ever'- 'enhances YouTube in meaningful ways'- 'Strong add-on, full control. Yet clear & easy'- Big thanks ♡ to our contributors, dodieboy, translators/wiki-authors & donators

The strongest Youtube Extension
90 proven features - the only one of a kind

Since 2012 we have gradually been adding lightweight features & keeping up with Youtube changes. (throughout the years we witnessed the birth & fall of other promising & open YouTube Extensions 1, 2, ... ) Today adding something is easier & so motivating as there are 500 000 users. [👪Join us].

Spread the word 📣

        - Why arent there millions of users yet? We didn't write a guide or manual, let alone ads. This project can still fly much higher through your word of mouth & eventually enable us to work on all wishes & immediate fixes around the clock 🌱

Roadmap Finding developers and patreons All bugs & wishes 🛈ToolTips & documentation Avoiding CPU-rendering by default Smart player buttons for all <video> Smart content-filtering & discovery Full-page GUI, watch-history, dashboard

   🏝⛵🏕 To-DoList

  

0. [ ] Bugs🐞 (we try to offer some bug bounty. Please ask .)

1. [ ] Documentation, wiki, screenshots, video, ...

We need to help people to learn as easily as possible about our 90+ features. (Drafts welcome. This will become 🛈ToolTips in the extension!")
+[ ]Updating translations +[ ]proofreading eng

2. [ ]Plans / Specifications 🧩
   &    [ ] organizational Discussions

3. [ ] Feature Requests🌟🧚 - sometimes easy / CSS
     + [ ]  Wishes in discussions

0.1. [ ] Tidy: (Rest/Unsorted 'issues')

Further reading: "Contributing without programming" & "Our CSS, JavaScript, json" ( outdated) (Newcomers are welcome tho! We review all edits & love to collaborate)

🎁Extensions & Projects

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[History Manager] [Dark Mode ] unLock me] [Custom user agent] [Regex Replace]

Research: [Regex (Search)("Ctrl+F+Shift")]

Video / Media: (to be integrated in ImprovedTube...) [Looper] [Frame by Frame] [unBlob] (Equalizer)

Home: (Start Page to be uploaded ) [TextEditor] [ToDo] [auto-scroll]

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Development: [Satus - Our UI library] [WebGL.js - WebGL Library] (TE,P,CodeEdit, Viscum Player)

Git Community: [🐣Regex Collector] [🌱Pull Requests bots]

     🧰 Features      

• Fit Video to window, default resolution or pop-up player
• Hiding distractions
• Youtube Themes, Colors & night schedule
• Video Repeat-, screenshot-, rotate-buttons
• Customizable hotkeys / shortcuts

[Full List of Features]

      🔧 Install from source

 

1.) Download & extract the [latest🧪version] or [release]

• Safari:

  • 2.) #494

• Chrome / Chromium / Brave / Edge / Vivaldi

  • 2.) Go to your Browser's Extensions page (chrome://extensions/)
    • 3.) Activate Developer mode
      • 4.) Click the Load unpacked button & Select the extracted folder

• Firefox / LibreWolf / Waterfox / IceCat

  • 2.) Go to Add-ons (about:addons)
    • 3.) Click on Extensions tab
      • 4.) Click on Debug Add-ons (about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox)
        • 5.) Click on Load Temporary Add-on…
          • 6.) Select the manifest.json file from unzipped folder

🌎 Translators ♡

✔️EN en_GB : KorbinCode Proofreaders:___ (You?) ✔️CN(zh_CN) : niceRAM, ausers ✔️CN(zh_TW) : Still34, water903, suitangi ✓ES : Kioraga, Compvictor, dimateos ✓HI : monishamandal02, BRAVO68WEB ✓FR : leghort, Eymiks, Solvabl ✓AR : Raayib ✔️BN : BRAVO68WEB ✓RU : qweered, alexesprit ✔️pt_BR : dthiago, Mike-Correa DavidBrazSan ✓PT : DrNopt ✓ID : Bagus23, A.Muttaqin ✔️DE : Termuellinator, css-smueller ✔️JA : utuhiro78 ✓TR : onurdumangoz, daswareinfach VN : zeref-dragneel ✓KO : msc9533, LYHyoung ❌(Iranian) Persian : _____(You?) ✔️IT : urfausto, FedericoSlongo ❌TH Thai : ______(You?) ✔️PL : FluidExtractor ❌Ukrainian : (You?) ❌Hebrew : (You?) ❌Czech : (You?) ❌SE Swedish : (You?) ✓NL : aron-hoogeveen, Vistaus ✓RO : hateofhades ✓SI : AshenNethsara ✓EL(Greek) : molyvius ❌DA Danish : (You?) ❌Hungarian : (You?) ❌FI Finnish : (You?) ❌Serbian : (You?) ❌Slovak : (You?) ❌BG Bulgarian : (You?) ✓no_NB : comradekingu ✓HR(Croatian) : mbeara ❌Croatian : (You?) ✓NO : master3395, comradekingu ✓SK : bbc-s ❌Catalan, Valencian : (You?) ❌Estonian : (You?) ✓ = missing some additions/updates [Help us Translate] The following popular languages are spoken mainly. But dont hesitate to add one of them. (Even if just for fun) Urdu Nigerian Pidgin (English Creole) Western-&Eastern-Punjabi Marathi(Indo-European)Telugu Tamil Yue Chinese (incl. Cantonese) Tagalog (New name: Filipino) Wu Chinese (incl. Shanghainese) HausaEgyptian Spoken Arabic SwahiliJavaneseKannadaGujarati Amharic, Bhojpuri, Min Nan Chinese (incl. Hokkien), Jin Chinese Yoruba Hakka Chinese, Burmese, Spoken Arabic: Sudanese & Algerian Lingala, Malaysian Malay (Combined these have more first-language speakers than English + Spanish + Hindi. And more second-language speakers than Chinese + Hindi + Spanish) [Help us Translate]

     📟 "Ticker"

  

❔ImprovedTube controls in, under or around the video player or cursor.
❔Meaningful/Most similar extensions? Social-Fixer, Youtube Enhancer, Simplify, ....
📟 We are focused on updates, bugs & UX but please keep up your wishes for Features!♡
📟 Enjoy our projects: global Dark Mode, to tweak CSS everywhere + Theme engine in the making, ...
📟 2021: Firefox, Edge, Opera, Whale added (please try&rate)

💡 Got great ideas?

We'll work on novel (new & unique) projects github/Wish-Factory
(or ideas@improvedtube.com)

     🌾👩‍💻 "Behind the scenes"

  

Do you need to run a popular extension, site, app or repo?
We'll love to help meaningful projects@improvedtube.com

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     📜Old Introduction:

     

ImprovedTube,       is an extension we built to refine your YouTube experience. A one-stop-shop with many powerful features to enhance YouTube, yet liteweight. A larger player & tidy YouTube UI / hiding distractions were the first loved feature. And there was so much left to build and are many clever features to come still.        ImprovedTube is designed with our own UI library: Satus (to manage your settings efficiently & create familiar apps/'cousins easily.)       Please spread the word: ImprovedTube is the only project of it's kind, because other open Youtube Extensions resigned. No other project provides so much CSS to adjust a website🦄.

** Some ImprovedTube features**:

• Video quality
• Themes and customisation
• Repeat-, screenshot-, rotate-buttons
• Pop-up player
• Ads management
• Hide Cards and Annotations
• Customise video page appearance (always expand description, hide related videos etc.)
• Channel page customisations
• Customisation of hotkeys/shortcuts
• Statistics
• Volume mixer Full list

🔧 Install from source 1.) Download & extract the [latest🧪version] or [release]

• Safari:

  • 2.) Issue #494

• Chrome / Chromium / Brave / Edge / Vivaldi

  • 2.) Go to your Browser's Extensions page (chrome://extensions/)
  • 3.) Activate Developer mode
  • 4.) Click the Load unpacked button & Select the extracted folder

• Firefox / LibreWolf / Waterfox / IceCat

  • 2.) Go to Add-ons (about:addons)
  • 3.) Click on Extensions tab
  • 4.) Click on Debug Add-ons (about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox)
  • 5.) Click on Load Temporary Add-on…
  • 6.) Select the manifest.json file from unzipped folder

Web browser support

Brave	Chromium	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Vivaldi
0.52+	49.0+	49.0+	79.0+	44.0+	36.0+	x.x+	1.0+