libredirect/browser_extension

Currently certain features with respect to frontends are done in a manual basis when a new frontend is added. Creating additional work. The proposal is, we create a template For example, Copy raw - The function will be available for every frontend by default. The template is copy original link. It writes the original link to the clipboard and the template contains instructions to fetch original link from the frotnend-{name}.js . Now, the extensions, checks the active frontend. If in a redlib instance. It finds the reddit redirection service file and undo the redirect logic that was done by extension and copy link to clipboard. This way, a generic service file will be available. It just needs to be linked to the frontend serivce file where the logic is already there. So, no need to manually create these buttons everytime there is a new frontend. There is already a lot of frontends that doesn't have these features that are available in libredirect. They would benefit too. This requires

Create a scripting file, that checks if all URLs are properly redirected with different combination of settings along with features such as redirect to original, preferred instance, copy Raw & their keyboard settings, sync settings - both file & accounts, etc across browsers and Operating systems. This helps to release the extension quickly without manually checking everything by hand and saves a lot of time. This can be a script first to check locally on the developer machine first. Expand to Github CI pipeline down the road to utilize and check in other operating systems and browser to cater to multitude of users.

So originally I wanted to ask about grayjay support, however that's already been asked for and doesn't seem to have much traction (at least at a glance, I haven't looked at anything outside this feature request). I am aware grayjays licensing makes a lot of open source focused developers uncomfortable, since it's not an open source license but rather a source available license, at least based off some interactions I've had. So I was thinking, instead of requesting support for grayjay specifically, maybe adding a feature to "redirect to an external application" and the user could just select an application installed on their system?