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SponsorBlock

Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)

From ajayyy·Updated June 17, 2026·View on GitHub·

Download: Chrome/Chromium | Firefox | Android | Edge | Safari for MacOS and iOS | Website | Stats The project is written primarily in TypeScript, distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 license, first published in 2019. It has gained significant community traction with 13,338 stars and 453 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: adblock, adblocker, chrome, chrome-extension, chromium.

Latest release: 6.1.5
April 21, 2026View Changelog →
<p align="center"> <a href="https://sponsor.ajay.app"><img src="public/icons/LogoSponsorBlocker256px.png" alt="Logo"></img></a> <br/> <sub>Logo by <a href="https://github.com/munadikieh">@munadikieh</a></sub> </p> <h1 align="center">SponsorBlock</h1> <p align="center"> <b>Download:</b> <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone">Chrome/Chromium</a> | <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/sponsorblock/?src=external-github">Firefox</a> | <a href="https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/Android">Android</a> | <a href="https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/Edge">Edge</a> | <a href="https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/Safari">Safari for MacOS and iOS</a> | <a href="https://sponsor.ajay.app">Website</a> | <a href="https://sponsor.ajay.app/stats">Stats</a> </p> <p align="center"> <b>3rd-Party Ports:</b> <a href="https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/3rd-Party-Ports#mpv-media-player">MPV</a> | <a href="https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/3rd-Party-Ports#kodi">Kodi</a> | <a href="https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/3rd-Party-Ports#Chromecast">Chromecast</a> | <a href="https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/3rd-Party-Ports#ios">iOS</a> </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/sponsorblock/?src=external-github"><img src="https://img.shields.io/amo/users/sponsorblock?label=Firefox%20Users" alt="Badge"></img></a> <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone"><img src="https://img.shields.io/chrome-web-store/users/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone?label=Chrome%20Users" alt="Badge"></img></a> <a href="https://sponsor.ajay.app/stats"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json?label=Submissions&query=totalSubmissions&suffix=%20segments&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsponsor.ajay.app%2Fapi%2FgetTotalStats&color=darkred" alt="Badge"></img></a> <a href="https://sponsor.ajay.app/stats"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json?label=Active%20Users&query=apiUsers&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsponsor.ajay.app%2Fapi%2FgetTotalStats&color=darkblue" alt="Badge"></img></a> <a href="https://sponsor.ajay.app/stats"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json?label=Time%20Saved%20From%20Skips&query=daysSaved&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsponsor.ajay.app%2Fapi%2FgetDaysSavedFormatted&color=darkgreen&suffix=%20days" alt="Badge"></img></a> </p>

SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe.

It also supports Invidious.

Translate: Crowdin

Important Links

See the Wiki for important links.

Server

The backend server code is available here: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlockServer

To make sure that this project doesn't die, I have made the database publicly downloadable at https://sponsor.ajay.app/database (License). If you are planning on using the database in another project, please read the API Docs page for more information.

The dataset and API are now being used in some ports as well as a neural network.

API

You can read the API docs here.

Building

See CONTRIBUTING.md

Credit

The awesome Invidious API was previously used, and the server is now using NewLeaf to get video info from YouTube.

Originally forked from YTSponsorSkip, but very little code remains.

Icons made by:

  • <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/authors/gregor-cresnar" title="Gregor Cresnar">Gregor Cresnar</a> from <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/" title="Flaticon">www.flaticon.com</a> and are licensed by <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" title="Creative Commons BY 3.0" target="_blank">CC 3.0 BY</a>
  • <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/authors/freepik" title="Freepik">Freepik</a> from <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/" title="Flaticon">www.flaticon.com</a> and are licensed by <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" title="Creative Commons BY 3.0" target="_blank">CC 3.0 BY</a>
  • <a href="https://iconmonstr.com/about/#creator">Alexander Kahlkopf</a> from <a href="https://iconmonstr.com/">iconmonstr.com</a> and are licensed by <a href="https://iconmonstr.com/license/">iconmonstr License</a>

License

This project is licensed under GNU GPL v3 or any later version

Contributors

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