Initial Public Release: Overleaf Comment Extractor

[nmady]

AMO listing: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overleaf-comment-exporter/

Summary
This version includes a simple popup interface that allows the user to choose between CSV and XLSX output, then extracts all of the comments from an Overleaf document. This release is experimental.

Added

• Extract Overleaf review comment threads from project pages
• Export comments to CSV and XLSX formats
• Include thread metadata such as comment text, user, timestamp, and context where available

Changed
N/A (initial release)

Fixed
N/A (initial release)

Permissions and privacy

• Permissions used: activeTab, https://www.overleaf.com/
• Data processing: local only in browser
• No external server upload of extracted comment data
• Privacy policy: https://github.com/nmady/OverleafCommentScraper/blob/main/PRIVACY.md

Upgrade notes
No breaking changes in this release.

Known limitations

• Extraction depends on Overleaf page structure and may require updates if Overleaf changes UI
• Only comments visible/accessible in current page context are exported
• Some highlighted text is decided by approximation and may be error-prone. (So please report issues when these bugs surface!)

Checks completed
AMO package submitted and published
Version tag matches AMO version
Basic extraction tested on Overleaf project page
CSV/XLSX export verified

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