This project came about because I wanted to search over things like HN comments in my browsing history. First attempts were via CLI tools, which required making a request to fetch HTML. This doesn't always work and correlated with an increase in CloudFlare captchas from my IP.
Thus this project: Create a full text index of web pages as you visit them. Works with plain HTML as well as JS-heavy pages.
Will there be a firefox compatible verson ? I have been looking for a full text search history extension and what you developed is exactly what i am looking for but i use firefox and checking github there is a link for chrome only.
I started building this with cross-browser in mind, and later stopped using the generic web extension APIs to get everything working. getting this working with manifest v3 was a pain, but doable. now that it works it could be made cross-browser again.
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Mentioned earlier in another thread [1].
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38624807
I started building this with cross-browser in mind, and later stopped using the generic web extension APIs to get everything working. getting this working with manifest v3 was a pain, but doable. now that it works it could be made cross-browser again.
A Safari-native extension would be interesting if it could also be used on mobile, although I haven't looked into how that might work.