Peek v6.1

What's New

• Updated design with translucent background
• Apple Music previews now supported (albums and single tracks)
• Apple Podcasts previews now supported (shows and episodes)
• YouTube Music previews now supported (single tracks)
• YouTube video previews are more reliable and support timestamps (#48)
• Spotify link previews now properly support albums, podcast shows, and podcast episodes
• No longer shows previews on Google Search, Microsoft Teams, and Slack due to rendering bugs (#54, #53)
• No longer shows image previews for links containing images (#21)
• Fixed scrollbar not appearing on Mastodon post previews

Peek 6.0

• New pop-out button on previews that moves the preview to a popup window or browser tab
• Added previews for Mastodon posts
• Added previews for Facebook posts
• Added previews for Instagram posts and Reels
• Added previews for Spotify links
• Added previews for Threads posts
• Fixed bug where empty preview would appear on link to Imgur home page (#44)

Peek 5.0

• New simplified logo and toolbar icon
• Popup preview has been redesigned, with both light and dark mode support
• Added previews for links to YouTube Shorts
• Added previews for links to Imgur posts
• Added previews for TikTok videos (#39)
• Welcome and settings pages have been redesigned
• Previews for Reddit links now use Reddit's advanced embed code
• Previews are now loaded in sandboxed IFrames where possible (improves security and disables some in-preview links and fullscreen buttons)
• Fixed previews for YouTube shortlinks (youtu.be) not working
• Fixed bad URL handling (#37)
• Removed setting for adjusting preview size, preview size is now dynamic for each type of content
• Now runs as a Manifest V3 extension (#32)
• Updated Bootstrap, DOMPurify, Popper, and Tippy libraries to latest versions

Peek 4.0

• New logo by Mason Conrad
• YouTube and Reddit links are now supported
• OpenDocument files (.odt, .ods, .odp) now supported
• New setting for changing size of popup previews
• Cleaned up code

Peek 3.1

• Added loading spinner to Office Online, iCloud, and Google Docs previews
• Updated dependencies

Peek 3.0

New in Peek 3.0:

• Rewritten codebase using Tippy.js for popups
• Added previews for JPEG, PNG, GIF, SVG, PNG, APNG, ICO, and BMP images
• Added previews for plain text (.txt) files
• Improved PDF previews on Chrome
• Added previews for iCloud links (currently limited to Keynote files)
• Removed previews for Gfycat and Giphy links

Peek 2.2.1

New in Peek 2.2.1:

• Added Patreon link
• Updated jQuery dependency to latest version
• Minor bug fixes

Peek 2.2

New in Peek 2.2:

• New design for welcome and settings pages
• Previews are no longer created for HTTP content on HTTPS pages
• Removed support for Flash video file previews
• Updated jQuery and Tooltipster libraries to latest version

Peek 2.1

New in Peek 2.1:

• Better support for Google search results (only on Google Chrome, unresolved issues with Opera)
• Supports more Google Docs link formats
• Bug fixes

Peek 2.0

New in Peek 2.0:

• Now allows previews to 'pop-out' into new windows
• Toolbar icon now shows number of previews on the page
• Updated preview interface
• Supports more Google Drive links
• Improved performance
• Changed minimum Chrome version to 47
• Fixed bug where multiple popups were rendered for some files
• Changed license to MIT