Whitehouse.gov Redirect Chrome Extension

On Jan 20th 2017, the contents of whitehouse.gov under the Obama administration were migrated to the National Archives and hosted at obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. However, this resulted in broken links and unusable Google results.

This is a simple Chrome extension that tries to redirect if the current whitehouse.gov returns a 404.

Install from the Chrome Web Store

You can install this from the Chrome Web Store here. Click Add to Chrome to install.

How to run as a developer

For those of you interested in contributing and running this extension as a developer, you can do so with the following instructions. Pull requests welcome!

1. Clone the repo or download the zip

   git clone https://github.com/liyanchang/whitehouse.gov-redirect.git

2. Open the Chrome extensions page at chrome://extensions

3. Turn on Developer Mode

   The Developer mode checkbox in the upper right hand corner should be checked.

4. Load the extension

   Click Load unpacked extension and navigate to the repo and click select.

   

5. Try it out:

   • https://whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/nstc/

6. If you make modifications to the code, click Reload on the chrome://extensions page for Chrome to refresh the extension.