Eagle Eye - Watch videos in a floating window

Eagle Eye - Watch videos in a floating window

Preview video links in a small floating window.

What is Eagle Eye - Watch videos in a floating window?
Eagle Eye is a 100% free Chrome extension that allows you to preview and watch YouTube videos in a customizable, minimalistic floating player. Ideal for multitasking, you can browse and work without needing to open YouTube, helping you to avoid distractions from YouTube's recommendation algorithm. Eagle Eye makes research easier - watch linked videos while reading. Eagle Eye even remembers your preferred player position and size. Key bindings for fast use can be customized in the options menu.
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By: Eagle Eye
Users: 1,000+
Rating: 3.71 (7)
Version: 1.0.6 (Last updated: 2021-01-10)
Creation date: 2020-11-02
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 131.07K
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Eagle Eye improves the standard links in the browser. Place your mouse over a YouTube link to show a tooltip. You can click it to open the video in a minimalistic, customizable floating player.

Use Eagle Eye to view videos in Picture-in-Picture (PIP) mode.

Eagle Eye increases productivity, because you avoid opening YouTube and getting distracted by their recommendation algorithm. You can block YouTube and watch necessary content through the extension.

Eagle Eye improves communication with friends - you can watch the videos they send you while chatting. You can use it preview YouTube videos in Messenger. EE works everywhere - Messenger, Discord, Twitter, Google Search or any other random website.

Research made easier - If you are reading content that has links to a video, you can watch it while you are reading.

Features: ★ It's 100% free. ★ Clean, minimalist, beautiful design. ★ Move the floating window wherever you want. ★ Resize by dragging the bottom right corner.

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looks like this haven't been update for the long time for youtube shorts or portrait support add the followings and load it with developer mode. (if you need help, ask) globals.js 1) replace with these const EXTRACT_YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_REGEX = /^.*((youtu.be\/)|(v\/)|(\/u\/\w\/)|(embed\/)|(shorts\/)|(watch\?))\??v?=?([^#&?]*).*/ const EXTRACT_YOUTUBE_START_TIME_REGEX = /^.*(youtu.be\/|v\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|shorts\/|watch\?v=|\&v=)([^#\&\?]*)(?:(\?t|\&t|&start)=(\d+))?.*/ open-screen.js at the end of function extractVideoId(value) 1) replace it with this return (match && match[8].length==11) ? match[8] : false; open-screen.js 1) in function isYoutubeVideoLink(target) replace with this const urlTests = ['youtube', 'youtu.be', 'watch', 'shorts'] 2) add this const isShorts = contains(target.href, ['shorts']); 3) at the end replace with this return { videoUrl: videoUrl, startTime: startTime, isShorts: isShorts} open-screen.js in eventtrigger $(document).on('click', '.eagle-eye-tooltip', function(ev) 1) at the end replace with this showPopup(isYoutube.videoUrl, isYoutube.startTime || 0, isYoutube.isShorts) index.js at this line function showPopup(videoId, startTime) 1) replace it with this function showPopup(videoId, startTime, isShorts=false) add this whole condition if (isShorts) { let tempTotalWidth = totalWidth; totalWidth = totalHeight; totalHeight = tempTotalWidth; } just above the line bellow (exactly as seen here) if (document.getElementsByClassName('overlay-yt-extension').length)
by eThax Kew eThax Kew, 2023-06-05

Only works on the same page as the source video, making the whole floating aspect pointless
by Asher GZ Asher GZ, 2022-02-09
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Eagle Eye - Watch videos in a floating window is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

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Eagle Eye - Watch videos in a floating window has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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