Peek: Preview PDFs, Office files, and more by Corbin Davenport
Preview documents, videos, music, and more with a mouse hover.
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Peek is a browser extension that shows previews for links to files and supported services in web pages. Just hover your mouse over a link, and Peek will display a small popup with an interactive preview of the link's content.
Peek can show previews for PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, YouTube video links, audio files, Google Docs, and much more. It uses the browser's built-in rendering features, in combination with the Google Docs Viewer, Microsoft Office Web Viewer, and other third-party embedded viewers to display rich previews.
Supported file types:
Supported links:
Peek is open source under the GPL license. The code is available here:
https://github.com/corbindavenport/peek
Peek can show previews for PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, YouTube video links, audio files, Google Docs, and much more. It uses the browser's built-in rendering features, in combination with the Google Docs Viewer, Microsoft Office Web Viewer, and other third-party embedded viewers to display rich previews.
Supported file types:
- PDF, TXT, and RTF documents
- WebM, MP4, M4V, OGG, OGV, and Imgur GIFV video
- MP3, M4A, OGA, OGG, and WAV audio
- Word documents (.doc, .docx)
- Excel spreadsheets (.xls, .xlsx)
- PowerPoint files (.ppt, .pptx)
- OpenDocument files (.odt, .ods, etc.)
- JPG, PNG, APNG, SVG, GIF, ICO, and BMP images
Supported links:
- Google Docs links
- iCloud Keynote links
- YouTube videos and YouTube Shorts
- Reddit links
- Imgur links
- TikTok videos
Peek is open source under the GPL license. The code is available here:
https://github.com/corbindavenport/peek
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- Version
- 6.0
- Size
- 206.48 KB
- Last updated
- a year ago (Nov 5, 2023)
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- GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Release notes for 6.0
- New pop-out button on previews that moves the preview to a popup window or browser tab
- Added previews for Mastodon posts
- Added previews for Facebook posts
- Added previews for Instagram posts and Reels
- Added previews for Spotify links
- Added previews for Threads posts
- Fixed bug where empty preview would appear on link to Imgur home page
- Added previews for Mastodon posts
- Added previews for Facebook posts
- Added previews for Instagram posts and Reels
- Added previews for Spotify links
- Added previews for Threads posts
- Fixed bug where empty preview would appear on link to Imgur home page
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