Page Assist is an open-source Chrome Extension that provides a Sidebar and Web UI for your Local AI model. It allows you to interact with your model from any webpage.

Page Assist supports Chromium-based browsers like Chrome, Brave, Edge, and Firefox.

Checkout the Demo (v1.0.0):

• Sidebar: A sidebar that can be opened on any webpage. It allows you to interact with your model and see the results.

• Web UI: A web UI that allows you to interact with your model like a ChatGPT Website.

• Chat With Webpage: You can chat with the webpage and ask questions about the content.

want more features? Create an issue and let me know.

• Node.js (v18 or higher) - Installation Guide
• npm
• Ollama (Local AI Provider) - Installation Guide

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/n4ze3m/page-assist.git
cd page-assist

2. Install the dependencies

npm install

3. Build the extension (by default it will build for Chrome)

npm run build

or you can build for Firefox

npm run build:firefox

4. Load the extension (chrome)

• Open the Extension Management page by navigating to chrome://extensions.

• Enable Developer Mode by clicking the toggle switch next to Developer mode.

• Click the Load unpacked button and select the build directory.

5. Load the extension (firefox)

• Open the Add-ons page by navigating to about:addons.
• Click the Extensions tab.
• Click the Manage Your Extensions button.
• Click the Load Temporary Add-on button and select the manifest.json file from the build directory.

Once the extension is installed, you can open the sidebar via context menu or keyboard shortcut.

Default Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+P

You can open the Web UI by clicking on the extension icon which will open a new tab with the Web UI.

Default Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+L

Note: You can change the keyboard shortcuts from the extension settings on the Chrome Extension Management page.

You can run the extension in development mode to make changes and test them.

npm run dev

This will start a development server and watch for changes in the source files. You can load the extension in your browser and test the changes.

• Ollama (Currently the only supported provider. More providers will be added in the future.)

• Firefox Support
• More Local AI Providers
• More Features
• More Customization Options
• Better UI/UX

Contributions are welcome. If you have any feature requests, bug reports, or questions, feel free to create an issue.

If you like the project and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee. It will help me to keep working on the project.

or you can sponsor me on GitHub.

MIT

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