Civic Data Highlighter

Google Chrome extension for generating civic data web scrapers

Building

This is a node package utilizing both npm and bower to manage dependencies. To build, open a terminal and navigate to the repository clone. Run the following:

npm install
bower install
gulp build
gulp package

Installing

A ZIP file will be generated and written to the package/ directory. In Google Chrome, navigate to chrome://extensions/. With a desktop file manager, drag the ZIP file to the Extensions page opened in Chrome.

Finally, the plugin uses a particular Chrome window type, a "panel" (normally reserved for Google's own Hangouts extension). To enable panel windows, navigate to chrome://flags/#enable-panels in Google Chrome. Click the "Enable" link and then restart Chrome. The Highlighter extension will work without panel windows enabled, but the extension will instead be a normal desktop window and not stay on top of the browser window.

Usage

Usage instructions are forthcoming!