HI Notifier

HI Notifier

This extension looks for the latest issue of the Hello Internet podcast.

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What is HI Notifier?
HI Notifier is a Chrome extension that keeps you updated with the latest episode of the Hello Internet podcast by CGP Grey and Brady Haran. It displays the episode number as a badge and provides links to all the episodes in a popup. The extension automatically checks for new episodes every 15 minutes and sends a notification when a new episode is found.
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Stats
Users: N/A
Rating: 4.33 (3)
Version: 1.0.9 (Last updated: 2016-12-25)
Creation date: 2016-12-25
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • http://*.hellointernet.fm/*
  • http://*.podtrac.com/*
  • notifications
  • storage
Size: 15.03K
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Summary

This simple extension looks for the latest episode of the Hello Internet podcast by CGP Grey and Brady Haran and displays the episode number as its badge. Clicking the icon displays a popup with links to all the episodes. Clicking a title will open a new tab and navigate to that episode on hellointernet.fm. The extension will recheck for a new episode every 15 minutes. If a new episode is found, a notification is displayed. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who has a use for this.

Please note that I am not affiliated with Hello Internet, CGP Grey or Brady Haran.

  • Update 1.0.9: Fixed another problem with special episode titles
  • Update 1.0.8: Yet another bugfix
  • Update 1.0.7: Fixes a problem with the handling of malformed episode titles (again) and changes the behaviour for the badge number back to the old way (unnumbered episodes get a special badge and are otherwise not counted)
  • Update 1.0.6: Fixed a bug with unnumbered Episodes (sorry about that)
User reviews
Worked until episode 100, when it now just says "SP"
by Chris Partan Chris Partan, 2018-05-21

Works really well!
by Daniel C Daniel C, 2017-04-27

Does the job and does it well
by Ethan Brown Ethan Brown, 2016-05-18
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Safety
Risk impact

HI Notifier is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

HI Notifier has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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