rotaercz / reddit-post-notifier

Firefox/Chrome extension that watches for posts in given subreddits or reddit searches

Reddit post notifier

Firefox/Chrome extension that watches for posts in given subreddits or reddit searches and notifies about the new ones.

Usage for developers

• > npm run start:ff
• > npm run start:chrome
  • build the extension with rollup and run it in Firefox or Chrome using web-ext
• > npm run buildzip:ff
• > npm run buildzip:chrome
  • create an extension package in /web-ext-artifacts folder
• > npm run test
  • test extension's code with jest

Authorization

This extension uses OAuth2 authorization to check reddit private mail. To generate credentials create new reddit app and then add id of the app in /scripts/config.js as clientId string.

External libraries and frameworks

Popup and option page UI are made with Svelte.

Keyboard shortcuts

Key	Function
Alt+Shift+S	Open the extension's popup
↓, j	Select the next item
↑, k	Select the previous item
→, l, Enter	Expand selected posts group; open selected post in the new tab
←, h, Backspace	Collapse selected posts group
Space	Mark selected item as read (remove it)
p	Pin selected post; remove already pinned post

License

The code of the extension is licensed under the MPL-2.0.