Top 3 JavaScript Nitter Projects

browser_extension

171 2,950 9.0 JavaScript

A browser extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy friendly frontends

Project mention: Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-26

Most of the time you can just replace twitter.com with nitter.net or nitter.it but when these instances are down or blocked you can use other instances listed here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
But as the other commenter said Libredirect is the way to go: https://libredirect.github.io/

privacy-redirect

78 1,921 0.0 JavaScript

A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives.

Project mention: YouTube started slowing video buffer with adblock enabled | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-13

SurveyJS

surveyjs.io sponsored

Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
nitter-redirect

12 170 10.0 JavaScript

A browser extension that redirects Twitter links to Nitter instead.

Project mention: John Carmack on AI | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-03

There is an extension that redirects all twitter links to nitter:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nitter-redirect/mo...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...
https://github.com/SimonBrazell/nitter-redirect

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).