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Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by sergiotapia on Saturday December 28, 2013 @01:09PM (#6975631)
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.
Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by imdsm on Saturday December 28, 2013 @02:39PM (#6976059)
Extension is now published, though there is no fancy art yet:

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

Enjoy!

Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by bluemetal on Saturday December 28, 2013 @06:16PM (#6977099)
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.

Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by imdsm on Sunday December 29, 2013 @05:37AM (#6979129)
I will look at this later on.
Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by chinhodado on Saturday December 28, 2013 @03:16PM (#6976290)
Can you put the source on Github please?
Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by imdsm on Saturday December 28, 2013 @04:37PM (#6976732)
Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by sergiotapia on Saturday December 28, 2013 @03:19PM (#6976311)
Wow, this is soooo helpful. Seriously, thanks a bunch for making this. Works just as I envisioned it.
Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by JonBons on Saturday December 28, 2013 @09:43PM (#6977981)
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...

Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by prometheuspk on Sunday December 29, 2013 @04:19AM (#6978974)
Is this now live?
Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by thousande on Saturday December 28, 2013 @03:02PM (#6976195)
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.

Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by thousande on Saturday December 28, 2013 @05:20PM (#6976914)
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

Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by thousande on Sunday December 29, 2013 @05:57AM (#6979190)
Renamed to gfycat Companion for Firefox ;)

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

Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by STRML on Monday December 30, 2013 @06:33PM (#6987846)
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

Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by whoopdedo on Saturday December 28, 2013 @02:12PM (#6975903)
Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by zbowling on Saturday December 28, 2013 @02:50PM (#6976124)
Really they should convince imgur to use this tech and replace all gifs directly.
Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by breadtk on Saturday December 28, 2013 @02:53PM (#6976139)
Imgur is pretty profitable [1], they may even want to consider buying this company.

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

Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by ehmish on Saturday December 28, 2013 @06:14PM (#6977095)
Page views != profitable
Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by MichaelApproved on Sunday December 29, 2013 @04:22AM (#6978979)
Read the last line of the article

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

Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by Splendor on Sunday December 29, 2013 @08:51PM (#6982590)
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

Re:Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion by prometheuspk on Sunday December 29, 2013 @04:19AM (#6978973)
I already made a bookmark for this. Posted the code to some places too.