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Openverse Browser Extension

Chrome | Firefox | Opera | Edge

A cross-browser extension that lets you search, filter, and use openly-licensed images.

Features

Please visit the homepage to preview a few features in action.

Feature	Firefox	Chrome	Opera	Edge
Search and filter CC Licensed images.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
One click easy attribution.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Image tags and recommendations.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Download images (and attribution).	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bookmark images.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Export and import bookmarks.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Options page for custom settings.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sync your custom setting and bookmarks across devices.	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Dark Mode.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Installation from source

You can install the extension directly from the source. Follow the following steps:

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-browser-extension.git

2. Install project dependencies

npm install

3. Run the following command to compile SASS to CSS and bundle JS. The compiled files will be in dist folder.

npm run build

Note: If you want to install the extension for development, you should run npm run dev.

Troubleshooting build failures

1. If you get the following error:

'TARGET' is not recognized as an internal or external command

then most likely webpack-cli is not installed on your dev machine.

• Here are the few things you can try:

  • Try deleting the folder node_modules and reinstalling webpack-cli.

    npm install --save-dev webpack-cli
  

  • If reinstalling node modules does not solve the issue, run the following to install webpack-cli globally.

  npm install -g webpack-cli
  

Loading the extension in the browser

• Mozilla Firefox
  • Navigate to about:debugging.
  • Click on “Load Temporary Add-on” button.
  • From the file explorer, choose openverse-browser-extension/dist/firefox/manifest.json.
• Google Chrome
  • Navigate to chrome://extensions.
  • Click on “Load Unpacked” button (make sure you have enabled the Developer mode).
  • From the file explorer, choose openverse-browser-extension/dist/chrome.
• Opera
  • Navigate to about://extensions.
  • Click on “Load Unpacked” button (make sure you have enabled the Developer mode).
  • From the file explorer, choose openverse-browser-extension/dist/opera.
• Edge
  • Navigate to edge://extensions.
  • Click on “Load Unpacked” button (make sure you have enabled the Developer mode).
  • From the file explorer, choose openverse-browser-extension/dist/edge.

Contribution

Checkout CONTRIBUTING.md for general guidelines for contributing code to the project.

For contribution guidelines and development instructions specific to this particular project, please checkout INSTRUCTIONS.md.

Debugging in Development Mode

Mozilla Firefox

• Navigate to about:debugging and from sidebar select This Firefox.
• Click on “Load Temporary Add-on” button.

  

• From the file explorer, choose openverse-browser-extension/dist/firefox/manifest.json.
• You will be now able to see Openverse browser extension. Now click on the Inspect button.

  

• A new tab will open with Firefox debugger. Now first, click on the three dots and select “Disable Popup Auto-Hide”.

  

• Now click on the browser extension from top right corner and the developer tools will be loaded with the content to debug.

  

Google Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Edge

After you have loaded the extension, follow these steps.

• Right-click in extension area and select “Inspect element”.

  

• The developer tools will now open loaded with the content to debug.

  

License

See LICENSE.