This is a legacy repo. We rebuilt this tool from the ground up and you can download it on our website. The new repository, you find here.
Welcome to the WorldBrain project. We work on the goal of an increased (scientific) literacy in our global society through a better overall information quality on the internet.
Doing so by developing open-source search tools for professional web-researchers like science communicators, (STEM-) students, journalists, librarians and online debaters to effortlessly find, rate and share qualitative and trustworthy web content/notes with their friends, followers and the public. (Watch the 3.5 min Vision Video)
It's an open-source chrome extension to full-text search all the pages you visited and bookmarked, and later also all the apps you use to organise your knowledge (i.e. Evernote, Pocket, Google Drive, Asana, Mendeley) (Watch 2 min Intro Video) (DOWNLOAD HERE)
- How to use the extension
- Status & Development Roadmap
- How to get involved
- FAQs
- Installation (as user & developer)
- How to get in touch with us
- Acknowledgements
- Licence
(Download it here), then type in w+ space/tab+ your keywordsinto the address bar.
For more detailed description, you can watch our Demo Video (2min) or read the text-based tutorial.
Important: All your data is stored and processed locally
Here you find the long term roadmap.
Right now, the chrome extension lets you full-text search all the web pages and PDFs you visited and bookmarked.
- full-text search history & bookmarks
- filter by time and minuswords
- blacklisting urls, domains, regex
- supports PDFs you visited online
- import existing history and bookmarks
We are currently working on replacing the DB with PouchDB and the default search implementation with PouchDB Quick Search
View all "UNDER DEVELOPMENT" issues
Currently the results can only be shown in the drop down of the adress bar and filters only applied by entering queries.
To change that, we are adding a web-based results and filter view (much like a google results page), where all results can be shown and a variety of filters applied.
More info in our projects section
- If you are JAVASCRIPT DEVELOPER you can check out our current projects and open tasks
- Wanna help with MARKETING? Contact Oliver via email: [email protected]
- Wanna help us with MONEYYYZ? Wohoo! You can do so by supporting us on Patreon
You can reach our FAQ here: reddit.com*/r/*WorldBrain
Install from the Chrome store here. (If you don't feel comfortable with that, look at Transparent Installation).
If you don't feel comfortable installing a Chrome extension that can read and modify all data on the websites you visit from the webstore (we wouldn't either!), you can clone this repository on your local machine, read through our code to verify that it is not malicious, and then install it as an unpacked local extension through the menu in chrome://extensions/. But this way you also won't receive any updates.
Wanna know if the extension installed on your computer has the same code as here on GitHub? See here.
Fork the project, then...
- Install
browserifyandwatchifywithnpm install -g browserify - Run
npm installto install dependencies
npm run watch
npm run build
- go to
chrome://extensions/ - Activate Developer Mode (top right)
- Click load unpacked extension (top left)
- Select the
/buildfolder from the project
Check this StackOverflow thread
- via Email: [email protected]
- Enter our Slack Channel: https://join-worldbrain.herokuapp.com/
This tool is originally released under the name "Falcon" and will be further developed to fit the needs of the scientific research community. The original programmers are @andrewilyas and @lengstrom.
Currently the (Re)search-Engine is released under GPL-3, as this has been the license of Falcon. We aim to release it under a more liberal license (CC0, MIT, BSD-2/3) as soon as we have replaced all the code from the original Falcon tool.
Our goal is to provide a set of reusable libraries, so that this client can be adapted to as many work-flows as possible.