I built Reddit Anywhere because I kept manually searching Reddit for discussions about articles and videos I was reading/watching, and I wanted to automate it.
The extension is pretty straightforward: it adds a small Reddit icon to any webpage you're on, and when clicked, it shows relevant Reddit threads discussing that page, or searching for related or relevant topics.
How it works:
-First tries to find the exact URL match on Reddit -If that fails, falls back to looking for discussion based on the page title and domain -For YouTube videos, it extracts the video title and channel name to find more relevant threads -Everything runs in browser
Technically -Built with vanilla JS -Uses Chrome storage API -Implemented Reddit's 0Auth through Chrome identity API -Basic caching to avoid hammering Reddit's API
Some challenges -Reddit's API limits were a pain, so I implemented exponential backoff -I'm still struggling with getting the Reddit icon to display on ALL websites, on some sites it's not viewable
This is a completely free and has no tracking, any feedback is appreciated!