Survol

Preview any link you hover, save time and tabs.

3 followers

Preview any link you hover, save time and tabs.

3 followers

Survol is a browser extension that previews any link you hover. The code is open-source. We use APIs (for services like twitter, wikipedia, youtube,..) and meta-data to create previews

Launch tags:Browser Extensions•Chrome Extensions•Productivity

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Maker

Hey Product Hunt community! Here is my side-project, Survol, a free and open-source browser extension to preview any link you hover. Current features : Survol has API implementations for the following sites : - Twitter - Reddit - Youtube - Soundcloud - Wikipedia We use page title and meta-data to provide previews for other websites. Project history : I started Survol last year during Hacktoberfest* 2019 as a personal project. I paused it for a year. I picked it back up a few days ago and I've received a lot of contributions and help from the open-source community. In just a few days we've fixed old bugs from last year and added many features. As people are interested in the project on Github and a few friends have asked me for the code I figured I should publish the extension and share it here. *Hacktoberfest is an event run by Digital Ocean during october (hence the name), that rewards open source contributions.

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6yr ago

Product Hunt

Clever idea. Love the leaderboard of contributors on the landing page. Smart way to give recognition and motivate people to participate.

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6yr ago

Maker

@rrhoover Hey thank you! The "leaderboard" idea wasn't really planned at first, I just wanted to show a list of contributors and I needed a way to organize them in a table so I guess it ended up like that naturally.

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6yr ago

@m_dolr you've been featured on https://blog.themarfa.name/kak-d... and https://en.blog.themarfa.name/ho...

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6yr ago

Maker

@marfapr hey thank you very much, you mention in your article that there are no settings, this is mis-leading, by clicking on the extension icon you can change settings like enable a dark mode or disable the extension on certain sites. If you could just change that that would be really nice!

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6yr ago

Great and simple idea, that saves a lot of time, particulary for research-intensive jobs like writing articles and papers. Not to mention it can work as a sort of precautionary or security tool against false links that lead to fake and scam websites. Thank you for creating this addon!

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6yr ago

Maker

@dawny thank you!

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6yr ago

10xlaunch.ai

great product. I will definitely add to my firefox.

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6yr ago

Maker

@shakif_fahim Thank you!

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6yr ago

Textomap for ChatGPT

Great idea saves some back and forth, definitely some search categories this would come useful for .

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6yr ago

Maker

@raijman Hey thank you, I agree, some friend of mine wanted to use it in order to have product description when hovering an offer on craiglist and it seems to work really well

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6yr ago

Lexington Themes

this reminds to an article I saw about portals, pretty close to it. Nice one!!

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6yr ago

Maker

@michael_andreuzza Thank you, if you find the article I'd be really interested in reading it, I've never heard of anything similar but I wouldn't be surprised if it's already been thought of

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6yr ago

Lexington Themes

@m_dolr Yes, let me look for it, I should have it somewhere. Btw,i will share Survol on my newsletter. unicornsfeed.com give me a couple of minutes and i come back with the link.

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6yr ago

Lexington Themes

@m_dolr here it is. A proposal for enabling seamless navigations between sites or pages - https://wicg.github.io/portals/ - https://github.com/WICG/portals is quiet interesting I have to say.

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6yr ago

Maker

@michael_andreuzza Thank you I'll read this it seems pretty interesting

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6yr ago

Lexington Themes

@m_dolr aye! You welcome Maxime.

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6yr ago

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