Primary Source Scraper

This extension looks for primary news sources in articles and highlights them so they are easy to see

What is Primary Source Scraper?

Primary Source Scraper is a Chrome extension designed to highlight links to primary sources in news articles. It aims to make it clear whether a news article links to trustworthy external sources, allowing readers to independently verify the accuracy of the news.

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By: https://primarysourcescraper.com

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Users: 20 ▼ -5

Rating: 5.00 (2)

Version: 0.7.7 (Last updated: 2022-05-03)

Creation date: 2020-09-20

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

https://primarysourcescraper.azurewebsites.net/api/*
activeTab
storage

Size: 97.96K

Email: so*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 98086 ▼ 5236

Other rankings

#1202 in News & Weather ▼ 30 #28 in source keyword 29 ▼ 1 #75 in scraper keyword 56 ▲ 4

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Primary Source Scraper (v0.7.7)

5.00 (1) 124

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Summary

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A Chrome extension designed to highlight links to primary sources in news articles.

News lives on the internet now! Various news sources are taking advantage of that by linking to sources, but it's not always clear that they're linking to external sources. It's even less clear whether they're linking to trustworthy external sources.

This project has a few goals:

Make it clear whether a news article links to any external sources that readers can use to independently verify that the news is being reported accurately.
Highlight the links to those sources

Icons made by Eucalyp from www.flaticon.com

User reviews

A helpful tool! I've found some fairly surprising data regarding the quality of various articles on the net. You'd be surprised how many articles have very few (or none at all!) links to external sources. Many articles will link only back to the site itself. Looking forward to more features being added.

Nate Feinberg, 2021-01-03

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Safety

Risk impact

Primary Source Scraper may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.