README.md


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<p align="center">
  <img src="icons/LogoSponsorBlocker256px.png" alt="Logo"></img>
  
  <br/>
  <sub>Logo by <a href="https://github.com/munadikieh">@munadikieh</a></sub>
</p>

<h1 align="center">SponsorBlock</h1>

<p align="center">
  <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone">Chrome/Chromium</a> |
  <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/sponsorblock/?src=external-github">Firefox</a> |
  <a href="https://sponsor.ajay.app">Website</a> |
  <a href="https://sponsor.ajay.app/stats">Stats</a>
</p>

![](https://img.shields.io/amo/users/sponsorblock?label=Firefox%20Users)[]() ![](https://img.shields.io/chrome-web-store/users/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone?label=Chome%20Users)[]()

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.

# Server

The backend server code is available here: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlockServer

It is a simple Sqlite database that will hold all the timing data.

To make sure that this project doesn't die, I have made the database publicly downloadable at https://sponsor.ajay.app/database.db. So, you can download a backup or get archive.org to take a backup if you do desire.

Hopefully this project can be combined with projects like [this](https://github.com/Sponsoff/sponsorship_remover) and use this data 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.

# API

You can read the API docs [here](https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlockServer#api-docs).

# Build Yourself

You can load this project as an unpacked extension. Make sure to rename the `config.js.example` file to `config.js` before installing.

# Credit

The awesome [Invidious API](https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/wiki/API) is used to grab the time the video was published.

Some icons made by <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/authors/gregor-cresnar" title="Gregor Cresnar">Gregor Cresnar</a> from <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/" title="Flaticon">www.flaticon.com</a> and are licensed by <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" title="Creative Commons BY 3.0" target="_blank">CC 3.0 BY</a>

Some icons made by <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/authors/freepik" title="Freepik">Freepik</a> from <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/" title="Flaticon">www.flaticon.com</a> are licensed by <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" title="Creative Commons BY 3.0" target="_blank">CC 3.0 BY</a>