Nova YouTube

December 9, 2024 · View on GitHub

Combine small plugins, expanding the possibilities of YouTube.

The extension is based on the plugin files themselves. The rest of the files only serve them.

  • ease of extensibility
  • low probability of conflict with other extensions.

Installation

Chrome Web Store openuserjs greasyfork

OR manual

Chromium-like

You can now load the extension into your browser through the browser's extension tools page:

  1. Download the userscript or extensions version of Nova.
    • If you have downloaded the extensions ver. extract it.
  2. Type chrome://extensions in your address bar to bring up the extensions page.
  3. Enable Developer Mode (checkbox)
  4. Drag the script onto the extensions page OR click the "Load unpacked extension" button, navigate to extracted script folder, and click "OK"..

Firefox

Need one of the builds Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR), Firefox Developer Edition and Nightly. Only this versions allow you to override the setting to enforce the extension signing requirement!

  1. Download the script. And move the files in the directory inside the archive to the root of the archive. The file manifest.json etc. must be in the root of the archive (not inside folders)
  2. Type about:config page in your address bar to bring up the "Firefox Configuration Editor" page. Agree with warning
  3. Type in new input xpinstall.signatures.required and change the setting to false.
  4. Type about:addons in your address bar to bring up the "Add-ons Manager" page.
  5. Drag the script onto the "Add-ons Manager" page OR Click to Gear icon and (⚙) choose "Install Add-ons From File...".

Development

Building Linux

Only for Unix shell** all output will be in the /tmp/ directory.

Extensions: $ ./package-extensions.sh

Userscript: $ package-userscript.sh

Building WIndows

Userscript: package-userscript.bat

Making Plugin

Please read plugin document

File structure

The extension is based on plugin files. The remaining files only serve them.

Nova arhirecture
  • /js/loader.js - initial loading and connection of plugins.
  • /js/plugins.js - a list of all plugins and their module to run them.
  • /js/optionsBilder.js - generator of plugins configuration file.
  • /js/libs/ - directory of internal components of the extension. Not used by plugins, only by the extension itself.
  • /plugins/NOVA.js - common/utils library for all plugins.
  • /plugins/ - directory of all plugins and files available for connection to the YouTube page.

compatibility with other scripts

For compatibility with other scripts, you can access the list of settings (read only) Available only in userscript ver.

window.nova_settings