GitHub Repo Radar

A Chrome extension that enhances your GitHub repository search experience by displaying repository information directly in search results.

Tech Stack

• ⚛️ React - UI development
• 🎨 Tailwind CSS - Styling
• 🧩 Plasmo - Extension framework
• 📦 TypeScript - Type safety
• 🔧 Chrome Extension Manifest V3 - Extension architecture

Features

• 🔍 Shows repository information in Google search results
• ⭐️ Displays stars and forks count
• 📝 Shows primary programming language
• ⚖️ Displays repository license
• 🕒 Shows last update time
• 🌓 Supports dark mode
• 🔒 Privacy focused - no data collection

Roadmap

• 🔄 Support for more search engines:
  • Bing
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Baidu
  • More to come...

Installation

Chrome Web Store

1. Visit GitHub Repo Radar on Chrome Web Store
2. Click "Add to Chrome" to install

Manual Installation

1. Clone this repository
2. Run pnpm install && pnpm build
3. Open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions/
4. Enable "Developer mode" in the top right
5. Click "Load unpacked" and select the build/chrome-mv3-dev folder

Development

This extension is built with Plasmo.

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v16 or higher)
• pnpm (recommended) or npm

Setup

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Start development server
pnpm dev

# Build for production
pnpm build

# Package for distribution
pnpm package

The development build will be in build/chrome-mv3-dev.

Privacy

This extension is designed with privacy in mind:

• No data collection
• No external servers
• All processing happens locally
• Minimal permissions required

Read our full Privacy Policy.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• Built with Plasmo Framework
• Badges provided by Shields.io