Primary Source Scraper

Name: Primary Source Scraper
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Author: Primary Source Scraper Developer

By: Primary Source Scraper Developer

An extension designed to highlight links to primary sources in news articles.

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Features & Capabilities

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
(Eventually) Point out the relative trustworthiness of those sources (e.g. a .gov url is likely more trustworthy of a source than a tweet)

Here is an overview of how to use Primary Source Scraper

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User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Primary Source Scraper Developer

Daily users:

2 1

Rating:

3.00

(2)

Version:

0.7.7 Last updated: 2022-05-03

Version code:

5399815

Creation date:

2020-09-12

Risk:

Permissions:

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

Content scripts matches:

<all_urls>

Size:

101.93KB

Email:

so*****@gmail.com

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-16

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 57,365 ▲ 16,435

Other rankings

#69 in data scraper keyword 57 ▲ 24

#71 in source keyword 20 ▲ 29

#73 in scraper keyword 69 ▲ 15

#86 in web scraper keyword 53 ▲ 24

#93 in source code keyword 13 ▲ 27

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Developed by:

Primary Source Scraper Developer

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/primary-source-scraper/

Email:

so*****@gmail.com

Website:

https://primarysourcescraper.com/

User Reviews

unless there is a reason I am not seeing, I don't know why someone would downvote this. I've been waiting for an extension to come out like this. Journalism used to require investigation - not regurgitating someone else's story. This is exactly the sort of extension we need. My only suggestion is to be a bit more accurate in social media widget source counts. A single Tweet or Instagram widget will triple count because it has multiple links w/in the widget.

by ja*****, 2020-11-09

by 12*****, 2020-09-17

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Is Primary Source Scraper Safe?

Risk impact

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Primary Source Scraper requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Primary Source Scraper is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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