# Primary Source Scraper

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

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/primary-source-scraper](https://chrome-stats.com/d/primary-source-scraper)

## Overview

- **ID:** `primary-source-scraper`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Primary Source Scraper Developer
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Rating:** 3.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.7.7
- **Last updated:** 2022-05-03
- **First published:** 2020-09-12
- **Size:** 102 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/primary-source-scraper/)
- **Website:** [https://primarysourcescraper.com/](https://primarysourcescraper.com/)

## Description

Primary Source Scraper is a Firefox add-on designed to make it clear whether news articles link to external sources that readers can use to independently verify the accuracy of the news. It highlights the links to those sources and aims to eventually point out the relative trustworthiness of each source.

## Rankings

- #76,306 — Overall
- #108 — source
- #119 — scraper
- #122 — data scraper
- #130 — source code
- #140 — web scraper

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

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

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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