Looped In

A browser extension that displays Hacker News comments for the current webpage

Looped In is a browser extension that displays Hacker News comments for the current webpage in a sidebar. It is written in ClojureScript.

Looped In is available from the Chrome Web Store and the Firefox Add-ons site. If you'd prefer to clone the repository and run the extension locally, read on.

Usage

To build Looped In locally, you'll need Leiningen, the Clojure build tool.

To obtain a copy of the source code:

$ git clone git@github.com:jdormit/looped-in.git

To build the source code once, navigate to the project root and run:

$ lein cljsbuild once

This will output the generated JavaScript to ext/js/generated.

To load the extension locally in your browser, see instructions for Firefox or instructions for Chrome.

Analytics

Looped In uses Amplitude to track user actions such as clicking on a story or viewing replies to a comment. This data is useful for improving the program. However, some users find this tracking invasive, so Looped In respects the browser's Do Not Track setting. If DNT is enabled, no analytics data is collected. To enable DNT, see instructions for Firefox and instructions for Chrome.

If you are running the extension locally, you will either need to get an Amplitude API key or disable the analytics. The easiest way to disable the analytics is to edit the src/looped_in/analytics.cljs file. Delete the bodies of the init-amplitude and log-event functions. It should look something like this:

(defn init-amplitude [] ())
(defn log-event []  ())

If you want to keep the analytics, you'll need an Amplitude API key. [Sign up for Amplitude] (https://amplitude.com/signup?ref=nav) and follow the getting started guide to create a new project. Once you have the API key, create the file profiles.clj at the project root with the following content:

{:provided [:cljs-shared
            {:cljsbuild
             {:builds
              {:main
               {:compiler
                {:closure-defines {looped-in.analytics/amplitude-api-key
                                   "<your API key>"}}}}}}]

Then run lein cljsbuild once to rebuild the extension with the new API key (you may need to first delete ext/js/generated to force a fresh build).

License

Copyright © 2018 Jeremy Dormitzer

Distributed under the GNU General Public License v3. See LICENSE.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.