FacePause

Look Away to Pause Youtube - Experimental Chrome Extension

Chrome (v56+) has a new FaceDetector API which basically lets you detect faces in images easily, so what if we could pause Youtube when you look away or go for a sandwich 🥪?

▶️ Watch a video demo

How to install

Download the Zip from this release, unzip it and load it as an unpacked extension in Chrome.

Notice

• 🙀 I don’t trust my webcam and I have it covered, see this more as an experiment of Chromes new technology, than a product you'd use every day.

• 🏴 To get the extension to work you’ll need to enable Chrome Experimental Features here:
  chrome://flags#enable-experimental-web-platform-features

• 💡If you’re in a dark setting it will probably be a bit buggy, as FaceDetector API is still not great in bad light.

Development

Installation

1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/Hemmingsson/Face-Pause
2. Run npm install
3. Run npm run build

Load the extension in Chrome

1. Open Chrome browser and navigate to chrome://extensions
2. Select "Developer Mode" and then click "Load unpacked extension..."
3. From the file browser, choose to Face-Pause/build/chrome

Developing

The following task can be used when you want to start developing the extension

• npm run chrome-watch

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