A small personal project to create a Google Chrome extension for a new tab page with weather
Weather: NOAA
Location: IPAPI
Icons: @erikflowers/weather-icons
Check out the hosted link!
Originally inspired by Currently Chrome Extension
But simpler, more stripped down and customizable.
- Weather (with hourly forecast)
Future improvements:
- Weather alerts
- manually configured location
Download the .crx
file from the latest github release
Note: Use the following instructions below to build the .crx
file locally.
Note: The original purpose of this project was to customize a home screen - not for large scale deployment/distribution. Please use the various APIs according to policies specified. The purpose of this document is to simply relay how to deploy this extension on a personal platform.
Instructions:
git clone https://github.com/aalu1418/chromeExtension-newTab
- In Google Chrome, go to
chrome://extensions
and enableDeveloper mode
- Select
Pack extension
and browse to theExtension root directory
- Select
Pack extension
and two files will be generatedchromeExtension-newTab.crx
andchromeExtension-newTab.pem
(note: make sure Developer mode
is enabled)
- From your file browser, click and drag
chromeExtension-newTab.crx
onto thechrome://extensions
page and install the extension