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Show HN: Matlock Extension – Discover the Open Source Libraries Pages Are Using

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I just received this email:

  Hi Nikolas,
 
   My friend Oliver and I have included d3 in our chrome 
 extension https://getmatlock.github.io/, which works by 
 identifying the open source libraries a webpage is using. 
 Our goal is to give credit to the work that open source developers make.
 
   We just submitted it to Hacker News news.ycombinator.com, 
 so if you think this would be useful for open source 
 developers, we hope you'd consider throwing an upvote our way ;)

 
  Hope you don't mind the unsolicited email

Lol. Okay, every time I submit something to Hacker News I'm just going to spam a bunch of people as well :P

Hey njn; apologies for the annoyance. My buddy Adam who I worked on it with reached out because we included d3 as part of the extension. Thought it would be useful, but apologies that you got annoyed by it :(

Hi all - Been working on this extension with my buddy Adam (for both Chrome and Firefox) for a while. I wanted to know which Open Source libraries pages were using, and pull in info/context/data from GitHub (and a couple other sources) based on those libraries.

The idea is pretty straight forward: you click on the Extension Icon, and it'll analyze the page you're on and show you the libraries, basic data from GitHub (like star-count and when it was last committed to), the location of the developer(s) (if shared), and the description.

Open to any feedback or questions :)

this is very useful for figuring out what components your legacy projects are using. very nicely done. thanks for the hard work guys!

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