Webmapper

Webmapper

Constructs a map of the web using the user's browser history.

What is Webmapper?
"Webmapper" is a Chrome extension that constructs an interactive, personalized 'map of the web' using your browsing history. It visualizes webpages you visit, sizes them based on frequency and groups similar pages into clusters. It's interactive, zoomable, searchable and offers site-specific mapping and multiple color palettes.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 10,000+
Rating: 4.50 (12)
Version: 1.0.3 (Last updated: 2022-06-07)
Creation date: 2014-12-28
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • history
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
Size: 204.80K
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Summary

Webmapper uses your browsing history to construct an interactive, personalized "map of the web as you see it". Every webpage you visit is placed on the map and sized by how often you visit it. Similar pages are grouped into clusters.

Features:

Interactive -- click on text to visit pages, or zoom in on domain names Zoomable -- use mousewheel / scrolling to zoom in and out on clusters Searchable Site-Specific -- click on polygons to construct a map specific to a site, e.g. a map of all your Google searches, or Wikipedia entries 6 quality color palettes Map sites visited in the last 10, 20, 30, 50, or 100 days

Source Code: http://github.com/rhamerly/webmapper/wiki Privacy Policy: https://github.com/rhamerly/webmapper/wiki/Privacy-Policy

Developers: Ryan Hamerly, Scott Chung, Sheta Chatterjee, and Milinda Lakkam

User reviews
Very Fun!
by Roman Radulov Roman Radulov, 2021-03-03

Wonderful idea, unfortunately crashed instantly and never even showed my map.

Amazing overview, very helpful. Adding a possibility for mapping the whole history would be very beneficial.
by Jeroen Verhoef Jeroen Verhoef, 2016-07-18
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Safety
Risk impact

Webmapper is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Webmapper has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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