page-assist

page-assist

Use your locally running AI models to assist you in your web browsing

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Page Assist is an open-source Chrome Extension that provides a Sidebar and Web UI for your Local AI model. It allows you to interact with your model from any webpage.

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Page Assist

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Page Assist is an open-source Chrome Extension that provides a Sidebar and Web UI for your Local AI model. It allows you to interact with your model from any webpage.

Installation

Page Assist supports Chromium-based browsers like Chrome, Brave, Edge, and Firefox.

Chrome Web Store Firefox Add-on

Checkout the Demo (v1.0.0):

Page Assist Demo

Features

  • Sidebar: A sidebar that can be opened on any webpage. It allows you to interact with your model and see the results.

  • Web UI: A web UI that allows you to interact with your model like a ChatGPT Website.

  • Chat With Webpage: You can chat with the webpage and ask questions about the content.

want more features? Create an issue and let me know.

Manual Installation

Pre-requisites

  1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/n4ze3m/page-assist.git
cd page-assist
  1. Install the dependencies
bun install
  1. Build the extension (by default it will build for Chrome)
bun run build

or you can build for Firefox

bun build:firefox
  1. Load the extension (chrome)
  • Open the Extension Management page by navigating to chrome://extensions.

  • Enable Developer Mode by clicking the toggle switch next to Developer mode.

  • Click the Load unpacked button and select the build directory.

  1. Load the extension (firefox)
  • Open the Add-ons page by navigating to about:addons.
  • Click the Extensions tab.
  • Click the Manage Your Extensions button.
  • Click the Load Temporary Add-on button and select the manifest.json file from the build directory.

Usage

Sidebar

Once the extension is installed, you can open the sidebar via context menu or keyboard shortcut.

Default Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+P

Web UI

You can open the Web UI by clicking on the extension icon which will open a new tab with the Web UI.

Default Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+L

Note: You can change the keyboard shortcuts from the extension settings on the Chrome Extension Management page.

Development

You can run the extension in development mode to make changes and test them.

bun dev

This will start a development server and watch for changes in the source files. You can load the extension in your browser and test the changes.

Browser Support

Browser Sidebar Chat With Webpage Web UI
Chrome
Brave
Firefox
Vivaldi
Edge
LibreWolf
Zen Browser
Opera
Arc

Local AI Provider

  • Ollama

  • Chrome AI (Gemini Nano)

  • OpenAI API Compatible endpoints (like LM Studio, llamafile etc.)

Roadmap

  • [x] Firefox Support
  • [x] More Local AI Providers
  • [ ] More Customization Options
  • [ ] Better UI/UX

Privacy

Page Assist does not collect any personal data. The only time the extension communicates with the server is when you are using the share feature, which can be disabled from the settings.

All the data is stored locally in the browser storage. You can view the source code and verify it yourself.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. If you have any feature requests, bug reports, or questions, feel free to create an issue.

Support

If you like the project and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee. It will help me to keep working on the project.

Buy Me a Coffee at ko-fi.com

or you can sponsor me on GitHub.

Blogs and Videos About Page Assist

This are some of the blogs and videos about Page Assist. If you have written a blog or made a video about Page Assist, feel free to create a PR and add it here.

License

MIT

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