Alice Browser Context Extension

This Chrome extension provides comprehensive browser context data to the Alice AI Assistant application via WebSocket communication.

Features

• Real-time browser context retrieval: Extracts URL, page title, visible text, links, user selection, and surrounding context

• WebSocket-based communication: Persistent connection to Alice

• Atomic data collection: Retrieves all requested data types in a single operation

• Selection-aware: Captures user-selected text and surrounding context

• Link extraction: Collects all hyperlinks with their text and URLs

• Context menu for selected content

  Available actions for selected content on the web page:

  • "Fact check this": ask Alice to use a web search to check if the content is fake or true
  • "Summarize this": ask Alice to summarize selected content
  • "Tell me more about it": ask Alice to use a web search to get more information on a selected content

Installation

1. Load the extension in Chrome:

   $ git clone https://github.com/pmbstyle/alice-chrome-extension.git

   • Open Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions/
   • Enable "Developer mode" in the top right
   • Click "Load unpacked" and select the alice-chrome-extension folder

2. Verify installation:

   • The extension should appear in your Chrome toolbar
   • Double-click on the extension icon to open a pop-up