WesselKroos/youtube-ambilight

This browser extension adds ambient light to YouTube videos

Web & frontendJavaScript#ambient-light#ambilight#chrome#chrome-extension#edge

3.7 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 30, 2026, 13:32 UTC.

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About the project

A browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Opera and Firefox that adds ambient backlight (ambilight) around YouTube videos for an immersive effect. Requires a reasonably powerful GPU.

Useful for

Install the extension in Chrome and enable ambient light while watching YouTube
Build the extension from source with npm run build and load the /dist folder in developer mode
Check your GPU's PassMark score before installing to avoid stuttering

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

18 stars so far today, about 32 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 0 per day, so that's 32× as much.
Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 2 per day.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #7, +39 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 220
Today: 18 · ≈ 32 by evening
Forks: 21
Issues and pull requests: 311
Watchers: 4
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Latest release: 2.38.17 · November 13, 2025
Created: November 25, 2017
Last push: November 21, 2025

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 30, 2026GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #7, +39 stars

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