TabScout

Privacy-first browser extension that auto-detects what you're watching or reading and scrobbles it to your tracking services.

How It Works

01 Browse normally — TabScout watches your tab URLs in the background and matches them against a library of known streaming, manga, and book site patterns.

02 When a match is found, it extracts the title, episode/chapter, and season info directly from the URL. No page content is read — only the URL bar.

03 It scrobbles the detection to your connected services — AniList, SIMKL, and Trakt — logging what you watched or read, automatically.

Download Extension

TabScout is built to work on all modern browsers. Choose your platform below to get the latest release.

GitHub Release Latest

Download the latest pre-built .zip for Chrome or Firefox from our GitHub Releases page.

tabscout-chrome-mv3.zip & tabscout-firefox-mv2.zip

Chrome / Chromium Sideload

Load the unpacked extension directly. Works on Chrome, Brave, Arc, and other Chromium browsers.

1. Download tabscout-chrome-mv3.zip & extract.
2. Go to chrome://extensions → Enable Developer mode.
3. Click Load unpacked → Select the extracted folder.

Firefox Sideload

Dedicated Firefox build with full feature parity. Load as a temporary add-on for testing.

1. Download tabscout-firefox-mv2.zip & extract.
2. Go to about:debugging → This Firefox.
3. Click Load Temporary Add-on → Select manifest.json in the extracted folder.

Safari Coming Soon

Safari support is planned. Requires macOS + Xcode to convert the Firefox build.

Check SAFARI.md in the repo for future instructions, or open an issue to request it.

Supported Sites

Anime & Manga Crunchyroll high VRV high Funimation high HiDive med AnimePahe med 9Anime low Manga & Webtoon MangaDex high MangaPlus med Webtoon high Western TV & Movies Netflix low Hulu low Disney+ low Amazon Prime low Max low Paramount+ med Apple TV+ low YouTube Movies low Books & Reading Goodreads high The StoryGraph high Open Library high Project Gutenberg med Amazon Kindle low

Confidence: high = title + episode from URL med = title extracted, episode needs page title low = opaque IDs, page title fallback only

Setup & Pairing

1 Get API Keys: Visit the AniList Developer, SIMKL API, and Trakt OAuth pages to create apps and obtain your Client IDs and Secrets.

2 Configure: Copy .env.example to .env in the project root and fill in your credentials from step 1.

3 Build: Run npm install and npm run build (or npm run build -- --browser firefox) to generate the extension packages.

4 Sideload: Follow the browser-specific instructions in the Download Extension section above to load the unpacked extension directly.

Privacy

Disabled by default — you opt in to scrobbling

URL processing happens entirely in your browser — no data leaves your machine except the scrobble itself

No backend server, no analytics, no tracking

Per-site toggle — disable detection on any site you choose

Open source — audit the code yourself

Integrations

AniList

Anime & Manga

SIMKL

TV & Movies

Trakt

TV & Movies

Roadmap

✓ Chrome MV3 extension with URL pattern detection

✓ AniList, SIMKL, Trakt integrations

✓ Community-contributable pattern library (JSON)

✓ Privacy-first: disabled by default, local-only processing

✓ Firefox support (separate MV2 build)

○ Safari support (Xcode conversion)

○ Manual title override when auto-detection fails

○ Batch scrobble for binge sessions

○ Rate limiting and error recovery

○ Community pattern repository

○ i18n support

Source on GitHub ← All Projects