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If someone can create a simple Firefox/Chrome addon that takes imgur .gif links, and automatically converts the URL from this:

    http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif

To this:

    gfycat.com/fetch/http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif

I'm sure it would easily become a top 20 addons hands down.

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Extension is now published, though there is no fancy art yet:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autogfy/aleldfepmn...

Enjoy!

This extension works really well.

Feature request: I would like to be able to use some kind of wildcard/regex system to select which websites or domains it works on.

I will look at this later on.

Can you put the source on Github please?

Done.

https://github.com/Imdsm/AutoGfy

Wow, this is soooo helpful. Seriously, thanks a bunch for making this. Works just as I envisioned it.

If anyone uses RES for reddit I just finished up support for converting gifs to gfycat links with the inline image viewer.

https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite/pul...

Is this now live?

Firefox, first try:

http://mr-andersen.no/div/send-to-gfycat.xpi

Edit: If you want to inspect the source, download the file and rename the extension to zip.

Edit2: You may have to download the file and drag it into Firefox in order to install.

Renamed to gfycat - Firefox Add-on

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gfycat-firefo...

Added similar functionality as imdsm's Chrome version, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6976059

Renamed to gfycat Companion for Firefox ;)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gfycat-compan...

This post inspired me to make Imgur-to-gfycat[1][2], which uses the gfycat api to change <img> tags to embedded gfycat objects using gfycat's embed js, and changes anchors to /fetch urls. It's smart enough to change other anchors on a page if it's managed to resolve a gfycat url, and has a few hacks to work well with Reddit Enhancement Suite.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imgur-to-gfycat/id... [2] https://github.com/STRML/Imgur-to-Gfycat

I'm using a greasemonkey script.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gfycat/comments/1s0fip/extension_fo...

Really they should convince imgur to use this tech and replace all gifs directly.

Imgur is pretty profitable [1], they may even want to consider buying this company.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/imgur-is-officially-bigger-th...

Page views != profitable

Read the last line of the article

"Imgur is also profitable thanks to its paid Pro subscriptions and deals with advertisers."

I wrote a Chrome extension called GfyFetcher that adds a context menu item for fetching gifs with Gfycat: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gfyfetcher/logiomo...

Source here: https://github.com/engstrom/GfyFetcher

I already made a bookmark for this. Posted the code to some places too.

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