Instant YouTube

Watch YouTube videos anywhere
What is Instant YouTube?
Instant YouTube is a Chrome extension that allows you to watch YouTube videos anywhere. It shows the view count of any video and lets you choose to watch it instantly on various search engines. You can also access your video history and use YouTube shortcuts to enhance your viewing experience. Open sourced on GitHub.

Extension stats

By: Xie Yuguo
Users: 96 ▲ 19
Rating: 5.00 (3)
Version: 1.1.1 (Last updated: 2022-06-05)
Creation date: 2022-05-24
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • nativeMessaging
  • storage
  • tabs
  • activeTab
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 197.63K

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Extension summary

Instant YouTube allows you to see the view number of any youtube video and choose it to watch instantly on google.com, bing.com, duckduckgo.com, and other search engines without entering youtube.com.

This extension will record the latest videos you have watched, you can find them and play them by clicking the corresponding history in the chrome context menus at any website.

You can use all the youtube shortcuts to watch videos.

This extension is open sourced: https://github.com/ExxEss/Instant-YouTube

User reviews

Excellent plugin. I loved the fact that read an article while I'm watching news on youtube. At the same time at the same page!!

Very good for listening to music!
by Lautaro Rodriguez, 2022-06-01

Add option to have unlimited history please
by hoxha hoxha, 2022-05-26
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Instant YouTube requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Instant YouTube has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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