Adaptive Bitrate Manifest Viewer Extension Chrome

View HLS m3u8, MPEG Dash, and SMIL manifests in Chrome with syntax highlighting.

Latest Version

Version

0.9.1

Update

July 14, 2022

Size

52.88KiB

Developer

Adaptive Bitrate Manifest Viewer Extension

Avoid having to download the manifest file and then open in a text editor just to view it.

The extension works by blocking the download when the manifest is requested as the main url and then parses and displays it. Some syntax highlighting and definition links to the ietf.org draft documentation. To download the manifest file, click on the source url at the top of the page. Resources are linked in the manifest to make it easy to test the different parts.

You can test it out using a sample manifest url like https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/MI201109210084_1/m3u8s/f08e80da-bf1d-4e3d-8899-f0f6155f6efa.m3u8

CHANGELOG
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2018-03-26 0.9.1 Fixed an issue where URIs with equal signs in them wouldn't get replaced.
2018-01-29 0.9.0 Added ability to handle MPEG Dash and SMIL formats as well. Better handling of 404 and SSL certificate issues on manifest request. Major contributions made by my friend Joe Greathead.
2017-12-18 0.8.5 Excluding a few more domains reportedly having issues with this extension.
2017-06-19 0.8.4 Fixed bug where URIs in tags were incorrectly hyperlinked.
2017-05-11 0.8.3 Excluding http://video-dev.github.io/hls.js/demo/ to avoid causing issues.
2017-05-04 0.8.2 added a few more tags to the pattern and definitions list.

Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Adaptive Bitrate Manifest Viewer", "version": "0.9.1", "description": "View HLS m3u8, MPEG Dash, and SMIL manifests in Chrome with syntax highlighting.", "permissions": ["tabs","webRequest", "webRequestBlocking", "*://*/*", ""], "background": { "scripts": ["background.js"] }, "icons": { \t"128": "images/hls.png" }, "manifest_version": 2}