dunama/ig-saved-reels

Saved Reels is a Chrome browser extension that fixes a common Instagram annoyance: saved reels are buried behind endless scrolling with no search. This extension copies your saved reels, including the link, thumbnail, and caption, into a database you control, then gives you a searchable, sortable feed inside Chrome's side panel where you can play the reels without leaving the browser. You install it by loading it as an unpacked extension in Chrome, then connect it to your own free Supabase account, which is a hosted database and login service. A one-time database setup script creates the table that stores your reels, protected so that only you can see your own data. Once signed in through the extension, you visit your saved reels page on Instagram and click a Sync Now button to pull them in. Syncing is manual on purpose, there is no automatic background scraping. The extension is built with plain JavaScript and Chrome's Manifest V3 format, with no build tools or bundler required. It talks to Supabase directly over its web API rather than using Supabase's official code library, because browser extensions are not allowed to load remote code. Login credentials for your Supabase project are kept only in the background part of the extension, never exposed to the page content scripts. The README is upfront about some limitations. Instagram's thumbnail links expire after a while and need a fresh sync to update, captions sometimes come from Instagram's automatic image description rather than the real caption text, and scraping your own saved page is against Instagram's terms of service even though it is low risk for personal use. The project is released under the MIT license.