Upworthy Blogspam Killer

readme.md

Code for a Chrome extension that will bypass Upworthy's blogspam and go directly to the embedded Youtube video.

buhbye.js

var iframes = document.getElementsByTagName('iframe'),
  src;

for (var i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
  src = iframes[i].src;
  if (/\/embed\//.test(src)) {
    var videoId = src.substring(src.indexOf('embed/')+6, src.indexOf('?'));
    window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/watch?v=' + videoId;
  }
}

manifest.json

{
  "name": "Skip Upworthy",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "description": "Skip Upworthy",
  "homepage_url": "http://google.com",
  "default_locale": "en",
  "content_scripts": [
    {
      "matches": [
        "*://www.upworthy.com/*", 
        "*://upworthy.com/*"
      ],
      "js": [ "buhbye.js" ]
    }
  ],
  "permissions": ["activeTab"]
}