Precise links

Enables creating and resolving links to specific pieces of text in a page.

Chrome Extension: Precise links

Precise links is a Chrome extension that enables creating and resolving links to specific pieces of text in a page. It allows you to create links to a specific quote or selection, making it easier to bookmark or cite specific content within a webpage.

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By: Gerben

Users: 7

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Rating: 3.00

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Version: 1.0.2 (Last updated: 2018-06-22)

Creation date: 2018-06-22

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

<all_urls>
clipboardWrite
contextMenus

Size: 61.28K

Ranking

# 137,631 ▼ 3,514

Other rankings

#9777 in Just for Fun ▼ 252 #118 in links keyword 34 ▲ 21

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Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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This extension makes the browser support links that point to any range of text in a page. You can thus create a link (e.g. for bookmarking or citing) to a specific quote, instead of only to the document as a whole or to a section that was marked by the author with a named anchor.

Following a precise link will scroll to and select the specified text. To create a precise link, right-click on the selection (or long-tap, etc.), and choose 'Copy link to selected text'. Paste this address wherever you are making the link (note that this extension enables you to create links to, but not from a selection).

The link format was suggested in a W3C note 1, and builds on the Web Annotation standard2. The precise segment it points to is specified in the link's fragment identifier, so a link may look like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koala&oldid=781295795#selector(type=TextQuoteSelector,exact=fluffy%20ears)

Ideally browsers would start supporting precise links natively. The format may however still change when/if it becomes standardised, so links created with this extension might never be widely understood. In browsers not supporting the feature, the link will luckily still point to the page as a whole.

Consider this extension as experimental. Besides the mentioned specification being a draft, this extension currently only supports the TextQuoteSelector defined there, and can still use some improvements. Help is welcome!

User reviews

Реально создает ссылку, которую можно переслать другому человеку, и когда тот её откроет, нужный текст у него выделится автоматически. Но чтобы это работало, у получателя должно быть установлено такое же расширение, увы.