browser extension
Read a video from your own tab
A pasted Douyin link is read for you again since 21 October 2026. When a video will not play for our servers, or it is one only you can see, the extension records what your own tab plays, like a screen recorder, and reads that. On a Xiaohongshu search page, a topic page or a creator’s profile — pages our servers are refused — it reads the notes you can see, as many as you choose, into one comparison page. That is the lawful version of “read this creator’s latest posts”: your browser, your session, and the links the page put on screen, share token and all, so the read itself is still ours. You choose how many notes to read, and how many screens of the page load first.
On a phone, or without Chrome: save the Douyin video in the app (Share → Save to device) and upload it — the same digest, read from the file on your device. From a script, without a browser: linkdigest capture <file> does the same on your own machine.
What it is for
Paste its link or share text into the popup, press the icon on the tab it opens: transcript with timecodes, on-screen text, key points. A link reads on its own since 2026-10-21; your own tab is for a video Douyin's player will not serve us.
Search as you already do, press the second button, pick how many notes: every note read with its top comments, one comparison page over them.
A lecture, a livestream replay, a course page: the extension records what the tab plays and reads it the same way.
Flow A · a video
- Installunzip, Load unpacked
- Paste your keyonce, in the popup
- Paste the video linkit opens in a new tab
- Press the icon thereREC until it ends
- Read itin your console
Flow B · the notes on a page
- Search on Xiaohongshuin your own browser
- Digest the notes on this pagethe popup counts them
- Read the first 10your number, up to 50
- One batchcomments + insight each
- One pageunder Batches, or list_batches
The popup, on a search page
Found 18 notes on this page
“露营装备 review”
Read the first 10 notes
10 of 18 found + insight, one comparison over them
Price: a note as usual, +1 credit with insight; the comparison 1 credit per 10 notes, once per batch.
Install
- Download the zip above and unzip it.
- Open
chrome://extensionsand switch on Developer mode (top right). - Click Load unpacked and pick the unzipped folder.
- Press the LinkDigest icon in the toolbar and paste your key once.
Update (0.3.1)
It is not on the Chrome Web Store, so nothing updates it by itself. When a newer version is out the popup says so: download the zip above again, unzip it over the folder you already loaded — unzip it beside the old one and Chrome sees a second extension, with none of your settings and no key — then press Reload (↻) on chrome://extensions. Your key, your remembered counts and your draft stay.
Not yet on the Chrome Web Store.
Post what LinkDigest wrote (0.3.0)
A batch with draft on writes a post — titles, body, hashtags, cover text — from the notes it read. Copy it from the console (Copy the post), paste it into the extension’s draft box and press Open the publish page: it opens creator.xiaohongshu.com (or Douyin) in your own logged-in browser. Upload your images or video there, press the icon once, and the title and text are filled in. You check the page and press Publish yourself — the extension never presses it, never reads or stores your login, and asks for no new permission (it only acts on the tab you pressed the icon on). Hashtags are typed as plain text; retype the # to link each to a topic.
What it never does
- Nothing until you press the button, on that one tab. No content scripts, nothing in the background.
- No cookies, passwords, other tabs, site APIs or media URLs. Its only network permission is
linkdigest.dev. - The notes button reads only the links the page itself put on screen, with the share token the page wrote there. On a long search or profile page you can ask it to scroll your tab a few screens first (since 0.3.1), so the page loads more: it scrolls, and reads the links that appear. It clicks nothing, fetches nothing itself, and never mints a token.
- The result is private to your account and the recording is deleted when the job ends. Price: the same as a link of that length, 10 free credits to start.