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Extension in action
Inspiration
It's always good to keep in mind the speaker behind any media you consume. Our product makes this easy.
What it does
Displays the article's author's wikipedia summary in the chrome extension popup. (currently restricted to NYT)
How we built it
This is our first Chrome extension, so we started with the Google tutorial and built it off of that. The important parts of the program are:
- inject javascript into page
- find author name
- query Wikipedia
- send information back to extension
- display information in popup
Challenges we ran into
Finding the author was the most difficult part. Other challenges included getting a page summary from Wikipedia and successfully passing information between the injected script and the extension.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
This is our first Chrome extension, and it works!
What we learned
The basics of writing extensions
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