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A browser extension for automatically highlighting the important content on article pages.

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Auto Highlight

Keywords: tldr, tl;dr, article, summarizer, summarization, summary, highlight, highlighting, highlighter

Auto Highlight is a browser extension that automatically highlights the important content on article pages.

The extension is available from various browser add-on repositories.

To use Auto Highlight, install the extension, and click the highlighter icon in the location bar. Clicking multiple times changes the highlighting coverage.

Screenshot

The following image shows the highlighting on an article after clicking the Auto Highlight icon once.

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Development

A different manifest.json is used for Chrome and Firefox. For development, create a symbolic link manifest.json that points to either manifest_chrome.json or manifest_firefox.json, depending on the environment.

To generate zip archives, run zip.sh.

Privacy Policy

The Auto Highlight browser extension does not collect user data nor transmit user data remotely. Options for the extension are saved locally.

License

See LICENSE. This license does not apply to the libraries. For the library licenses, see the corresponding license files in src/lib.

Acknowledgments

Auto Highlight contains code from:

  1. readabilitySAX
  1. Porter-Stemmer