Play YouTube videos from any web page without having to leave the page.

Latest Version

Version
1.0.3
Update
April 9, 2018
Size
317KiB
Developer
Category
Users
133
Rating
2.28571 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Identity
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YT Link Preview Extension

YT Link Preview allows you to preview any youtube video directly from a link to the video.

It adds a small icon to every link to a YouTube video and by hovering this icon it will show the a video player along with information about the video namely, its title, description, duration, publishing date, statistics, channel, category, etc..

You cal also like/dislike the video from this preview window.

The preview window can be dragged and resized.

Click the close button or hover/click another YT Link Preview' icon to close the active preview window.

To use YT Link Preview you'll first have to sign-in with your YouTube account using Google's authentication page.
This extension doesn't store any personal information and its access to your YouTube account can be revoked at anytime by clicking the 'change user account' button on the extension settings.

Disclaimer:
This extension uses Youtube's v3 API (https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/) but is in no way affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Youtube or Google.
This extension does NOT keep any user's personal data.
This extension does NOT tracks user activity nor it shares any data with other parties.
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Source Manifest.json

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