Recipe Paywall Smasher 💥

Hacky paywall avoidance extension for:

• The New York Times
• NYT cooking
• Bon Appetit
• Epicurious

Installation

$ yarn
$ yarn build

Then follow instructions for individual browsers...

Firefox

There's a couple options for developing in FF. In either option, you must first downgrade the manifest_version to 2 in manifest.json.

Temporary installation

Follow these instructions

Self-distributed

• Create a Mozilla profile/add-on key
• Create an .env file
• Populate AMO_JWT_ISSUER and AMO_JWT_SECRET values from key generated above
• Run the sign and build commands:

$ yarn sign:android && yarn build:android

• Install in browser

Chrome

• Visit extensions settings
• Toggle on Developer mode
• Click Load unpacked and select root directory

Alternatively, follow these instructions

Safari

You can use a safari-web-extension-converter to build the extension.

I would recommend moving this into a sibling directory and updating the bundle identifier to something of your fancy.

$ mkdir ../nyt-paywall-safari
$ cd nyt-paywall-safari
$ xcrun safari-web-extension-converter ../nyt-paywall --bundle-identifier com.[YOUR NAME HERE].nytPaywallSmasher

• Open Xcode (if it didn't automatically open)

• Select macOS scheme (Product > Scheme > nytPaywallSmasher (macOS))

• Run build (Product > Build)

• Open Safari

• Toggle on Allow Unsigned Extensions in Develop menu

• Toggle on NYT Paywall Smasher in Preferences > Extensions