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Primary Source Scraper by Primary Source Scraper Developer

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

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This shows an article with several links.  2 of them are from external sources, and one of them is a link to another article on the same website.This is the detail popup for an article, showing that more than half of the links in this article are links back to the same news source that published the article.

This also shows a breakdown of what domains the external links are going to.
About this extension
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:

1. 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.
2. Highlight the links to those sources
3. (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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Version
0.7.7
Size
101.93 KB
Last updated
3 years ago (May 3, 2022)
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  • Feeds, News & Blogging
License
GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Release notes for 0.7.7
- Fix an issue where home pages were being scanned for articles
- Add an option to only highlight Primary Sources during initial scan
- UI Update: Clicking on a link category slice now highlights only links from that category
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