Netflix Navigator

Navigate Netflix with your keyboard or game controller

What is Netflix Navigator?

Netflix Navigator is a Chrome extension that utilizes the HTML5 Gamepad API to provide a game controller (and keyboard) navigator and control for Netflix. With features such as profile selection, movie navigation with a customized movie info pane, and playback control, this extension is ideal for integration with an HTPC. Get full details and source code at https://github.com/cheald/NetflixNavigator/

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By: Chris Heald

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Users: 132 ▲ 10

Rating: 2.44 (9)

Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2015-01-27)

Creation date: 2015-01-26

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

*://www.netflix.com/*

Size: 112.64K

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# 65356 ▲ 1331

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#5521 in Accessibility ▲ 36 #158 in netflix keyword 63 ▼ 5

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Extension summary

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This extension that uses the HTML5 Gamepad API to provide game controller (and keyboard) navigator and control for Netflix. Chrome 40+ is required. The primary use case is for integration with an HTPC (ie, Kodi with ChromeLauncher).

Currently supported features:

Profile selection
Movie navigation with customized movie info pane
Playback control (pause, mute, seek/scrub, volume, next episode)

This has only been tested with XBox 360 controllers so far.

Source and more info is available at https://github.com/cheald/NetflixNavigator/

User reviews

When opening Netflix page the overlay "press A to begin" occurs. After that, any function of the controler is ignored completely.

Ti Ka, 2017-01-03

Nice work, but it no longer works with their new UI. They must have changed their classes on you. +Brian Ernst: Part of the html5 controller api is that it requires the user to input a key press in order to initialize. The author just took the extra time to make it an attractive notification in stead of just expecting users to "know" they have to initialize the script.