SponsorBlock is an extension that will skip over sponsored segments of YouTube videos. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that lets anyone submit the start and end times of sponsored segments of YouTube videos. Once one person submits this information, everyone else with this extension will skip right over the sponsored segment.
To make sure that this project doesn't die, I have made the database publicly downloadable at https://sponsor.ajay.app/database.db. If you are planning on using the database in another project, please read the [API Docs](https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/API-Docs) page for more information.
The dataset and API are now being used in some [ports](https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/Unofficial-Ports) as well as a [neural network](https://github.com/andrewzlee/NeuralBlock).
A [previous project](https://github.com/Sponsoff/sponsorship_remover) attempted to create a neural network to predict when sponsored segments happen. That project is sadly abandoned now, so I have decided to attempt to revive this idea starting from a crowd-sourced system instead.
Run `npm run dev` to run the extension using a clean browser profile with hot reloading. Use `npm run dev:firefox` for Firefox. This uses [`web-ext run`](https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/web-ext-command-reference/#commands).
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