The same question comes back on every application, worded a little differently each time. Localauto keeps the answer you confirmed and fills it when you click.
- A repeated question fills. Exact reuse ignores case, punctuation, a required star, and an (Optional) tag.
- A paraphrase waits. A suggestion shows the answer and the question it came from. Accept writes that one field. "Authorized to work in the United States" can be offered for "authorised to work in the US". A question about the UK stays empty when the saved answer is about the United States.
- You choose what is kept. Review the answers on the form and keep the ones to reuse.
- It stays on this device. Profiles, saved answers, and settings live in the extension's own storage. Localauto makes no network requests of its own. There is no account.
It is a Manifest V3 extension for Chrome 116 or newer. It fills http and https pages, including forms inside iframes, and it is checked against live Greenhouse and Lever applications, including Greenhouse's dropdown questions and Lever's checkbox questions. Apache-2.0.
Beta. The spec for this slice is PLAN.md. Decisions it left open are in docs/ASSUMPTIONS.md. Changes are in CHANGELOG.md. What stays on the device is PRIVACY.md.
Install
You need Chrome 116 or newer. You do not need Node.
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Download localauto-<version>-chrome.zip and the matching .sha256 file from the latest release.
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Check the sum, then unzip into a folder you will keep. Chrome loads the extension from that folder.
sha256sum -c localauto-0.1.0-beta.1-chrome.zip.sha256
On macOS: shasum -a 256 -c localauto-0.1.0-beta.1-chrome.zip.sha256
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Open chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode.
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Choose Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.
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Pin Localauto. Click the icon to open the side panel.
To update, unzip the new release over the same folder and press the reload arrow on the Localauto card in chrome://extensions. Your profile and saved answers stay.
Chrome asks for permission to read and change data on all websites. That is how Fill reaches the page you have open. Localauto does not request browsing history. It does not run on file: or ftp: pages. PRIVACY.md explains each permission. SECURITY.md is the checksum check in full.
Build from source
You need Node 22 or newer.
git clone https://github.com/kirank55/localauto
cd localauto
npm install
npm test
npm run build
Load .output/chrome-mv3 with Load unpacked, as above. npm run dev rebuilds the extension while you work. npm run zip writes the release zip to .output/.
Use it
- In the side panel, enter your name, email, phone, and links, then Save profile. The profile folds into a summary. Edit profile opens it again. The personality button switches between Default, Personal, Work, Software engineer, and profiles you create.
- Open an application and choose Fill empty fields. Profile fields and saved answers go into empty visible fields.
- Answer a custom question yourself. Choose Review answers on this form, uncheck anything you do not want kept, then Keep the ones to reuse.
- On the next application, Fill empty fields again. The same question fills. A different wording shows under Suggestions with the source question. Accept writes that one field.
Results stay with the page they came from. Switching tabs keeps them. If that tab moves to another page, they clear.
Settings, opened from the side panel, lists every saved answer. Delete one, or delete them all. Settings is also where you add or delete a personality, pause Greenhouse, Lever, or the local demo, and turn the submit prompt on or off. Other websites stay on. Default stays.
With the submit prompt on, submitting a form opens the side panel with the name, email, phone, and links from that form in the profile. Save profile keeps them.
If a tab was open before you installed or updated Localauto, the first Fill adds Localauto to that tab. You do not need to reload it.
Fill leaves these alone:
- a field that already has a value
- a hidden field
- a password field
- a payment field (card number, CVV, and similar)
A one-word name fills First name and leaves Last name empty. Lever's single Name field gets the full name.
What fills where
| Profile fields | Text answers | Yes/no and choice questions |
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Greenhouse (job-boards.greenhouse.io, boards.greenhouse.io) | Yes | Yes | Yes, including the dropdowns |
Lever (jobs.lever.co) | Yes | Yes | Yes, including checkbox questions |
| Ashby | Yes | Yes | Native controls only. Ashby's yes/no buttons are not filled |
| Other websites | Yes, when the field says what it is | Yes | Native radios, checkboxes, and selects |
Outside this beta: file uploads such as a resume, date pickers, location pickers that need a choice from a list, multi-select dropdowns, Workday, and LinkedIn Easy Apply. Embeddings are later. See PLAN.md.
Demo
In another terminal:
npm run demo
Open http://127.0.0.1:4173
Try it
npm run try
This opens Playwright's Chromium with the extension loaded, the side panel in front, and the submit demo in the other tab. Close the window to stop. Saving a source file reloads the extension. Install that browser once with npx playwright install chromium.
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