WesselKroos/youtube-ambilight
This browser extension adds ambient light to YouTube videos
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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