Simplifly

Simplifly is a Chrome extension which allows you to turn any lengthy article into short bite-sized summary
What is Simplifly?
Simplifly is a unique Chrome extension engineered to produce concise summaries from lengthy articles. Leveraging advanced parsing techniques like the powerful Porter-Stemmer algorithm and Google's PageRank algorithm, Simplifly extracts pertinent sentences based on TF-IDF values, producing a compact summary while retaining essential information. Save time, increase productivity, and streamline your reading experience with Simplifly.

Extension stats

Users: 1,000+
Rating: 3.67 (3)
Version: 1.0.2 (Last updated: 2018-09-05)
Creation date: 2018-09-05
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
Size: 382.98K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

A Chrome extension to produce summaries of news articles.

How it works:

  1. Scrape Article heading and body from the current active tab using jQuery.

  2. Pre-process the body by removing stop words and stemming words using the Porter-Stemmer algorithm.

  3. Produce an array of sentence which will make up nodes in the graph.

  4. Produce the graph using TF-IDF values of the sentences and the cosine similarity as the weight between nodes.

  5. Run the graph through Google's PageRank algorthim.

  6. Choose the highest ranking nodes to produce a summary.

Extension safety

Risk impact

Simplifly requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Simplifly has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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