Survol - An open-source browser extension to preview any link you hover
Here is my side-project, Survol, a free and open-source browser extension to preview any link you hover.
Here is a preview 
Current features :
Survol has API implementations for the following sites :
- 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.
Wow this is nice! I'm gonna try it out now!
Also, Not sure if this is part of your plan but I was thinking if along with a preview, it can show some sort of rating about the page (in terms of spam, ads, fact check etc) so users can decide whether to open or not. Of course, this probably means there should be place for users to rate the page unless a third party already provides this and you can just integrate with them to display the rating!
Hope this is helpful!
Hey thank you
Hum no this is not planned for the moment, it would require to create a rating system and database and have the extension make an additional request everytime you hover something, we would alos need to implement user accounts etc.
If someone creates the rating system, user accounts and all of that, I'm ok with implementing it as an option, we'll see how things turn out in the future I guess
I'm a tab minimalist but this looks like something that could be useful for a lot of people out there. Just searching "how many tabs open" on twitter brings up so many popular tweets that could bring you early users!
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Oh yea I totally forgot, thanks for posting it here
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I understand,
I believe the safari feature shows a preview of the entire website though whereas the extension only shows essential data.