NeutralEye Chrome extension
NeutralEye helps readers examine how an article frames a story through its tone, sourcing, emphasis, and omissions. This repository contains the Chrome extension. The companion web application and analysis API power its results.
Install from the Chrome Web Store · Use the web app
How it works
- Open an article and choose Analyze in the extension popup.
- The extension extracts readable text and basic article metadata from the active tab.
- It sends that content to the NeutralEye web API and displays a framing analysis with quoted evidence and suggested sources for cross-reading.
Analysis works without an account. You can sign in with a NeutralEye account; signed-in analyses may be saved to that account by the web service. The extension does not analyze pages in the background. Its activeTab and scripting permissions let it read the current page when you start an analysis, and storage keeps your sign-in session on your device.
Run locally
- In Chrome, open
chrome://extensions and enable Developer mode.
- Choose Load unpacked and select this repository's directory.
- Open an article, select the NeutralEye icon, and choose Analyze.
The unpacked extension uses https://tryneutraleye.com for its API. It does not include an API key or a local backend. After changing extension files, reload it on chrome://extensions.
Development
This is a Manifest V3 extension written in plain JavaScript. content.js extracts article text; popup.js handles sign-in, requests, and rendering. The popup sanitizes the returned Markdown before displaying it.
npm ci
npm run verify
verify runs lint, tests, and manifest validation. See CHANGELOG.md for release notes and the extension privacy policy for data handling.
Third-party assets
Include these license files with packaged copies of the extension.
