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1.5 KiB
Forage Chrome Extension
Automatically captures browsing signals for your Forage personalized feed without needing to manually inject JavaScript.
Install (3 steps)
- Open Chrome and navigate to
chrome://extensions - Enable Developer mode (toggle in the top-right corner)
- Click Load unpacked and select the
applications/forage/extension/directory
The Forage icon will appear in your toolbar. Click it to configure the server URL, user ID, and optional auth token.
How it works
- Content script runs on every page at
document_idle, reads the page title, URL, canonical URL, description, and word count, then sends a capture message to the background worker. - Background worker POSTs to
/capture(registering the page as a Forage item and firing a view signal) and/signal(for dwell events after 30 seconds). - Popup lets you configure the server URL, user ID, auth token, and enable/disable capture. Shows the last captured page title.
Configuration
| Field | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Server URL | http://localhost:4242 |
Forage server address |
| User ID | 1 |
Which Forage user to signal as |
| Token | (empty) | Bearer token if the server was started with --token |
| Enable capture | ✓ | Toggle to pause/resume without uninstalling |
Skipped pages
The extension never captures:
chrome://internal pageslocalhostand127.0.0.1addresses (avoids capturing the Forage UI itself)- Extension pages (
chrome-extension://,moz-extension://)