Medium Code Highlighter

Add code syntax highlighting to Medium articles

Medium Code Highlighter - Syntax highlighting for Medium articles

Medium Code Highlighter is a Chrome extension that adds code syntax highlighting to Medium articles. It enhances the reading experience by making code snippets more visually appealing and legible.

Extension stats

Users: 365
-5
Rating: 4.33
(6)
Version: 1.0.2 (Last updated: 2019-07-27)
Creation date: 2019-07-23
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 88.39K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

A chrome browser extension which adds code syntax highlighting to Medium articles.
Forget the black-on-gray blobs of code in articles which don't embed gists or images of code!

  • Adds code syntax highlighting to '
    ' blocks in Medium articles.
  • Highlighting theme is selectable and can be changed on-the-fly (via extension popup upon icon-click) from a handful of popular themes. -- Theme preference links to Chrome account.
  • Works on all Medium articles, regardless of domain (i.e. 'medium.com', 'medium.freecodecamp.org', 'hackingandslacking.com', etc.)

Note Due to Medium's innate formatting, code blocks are split line-by-line into '

' blocks, meaning the 'highlightjs' language syntax recognizer may sometimes have trouble, but for the most part it works acceptably well.

User reviews

No longer working as of 2021, at least on this page: https://medium.com/younited-tech-blog/reactception-extending-vs-code-extension-with-webviews-and-react-12be2a5898fd
by Tanner Bennett, 2021-04-06

This is safe to use :)
by Mustapha Bouh, 2020-11-15

Just what i was looking for, Great extension for developer's medium readers
by Ricardo Guillen (Ry), 2019-11-08
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Medium Code Highlighter requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Medium Code Highlighter has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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