Glarity is an open-source Chrome extension designed to enhance productivity by providing ChatGPT-powered summaries and translations alongside search engine results and web content. It targets users who frequently consume information from Google, YouTube, and a wide array of other websites, offering a streamlined way to grasp key information quickly.

How It Works

The extension integrates with popular platforms like Google, YouTube, Bing, and many others, displaying concise summaries and translations directly within the user interface. It leverages OpenAI's GPT models, including GPT-3.5-turbo and text-davinci-003, to process and summarize web content, video transcripts, and search results, facilitating cross-language understanding and efficient information retrieval.

Quick Start & Requirements

• Installation: Available on the Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Add-on Store. Alternatively, build from source using npm install and npm run build, then load unpacked in browser extensions.
• Prerequisites: Requires a browser (Chrome, Firefox, Brave, etc.) and an OpenAI API key for full functionality.
• Resources: Building from source requires Node.js and npm.

Highlighted Details

• Supports over a dozen platforms including Google, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo! JAPAN ニュース, PubMed, and GitHub.
• Offers side-by-side translation, email writing assistance, and web content Q&A.
• Features Markdown rendering, code highlighting, and dark mode.
• Includes support for iOS Safari and macOS Safari.

Maintenance & Community

The project is sponsored by Felo AI. It is a fork of wong2/chatgpt-google-extension and borrows code from qunash/chatgpt-advanced.

Licensing & Compatibility

Licensed under GPL-3.0. This license is copyleft, meaning derivative works must also be open-sourced under the same license, which may have implications for commercial or closed-source integration.

Limitations & Caveats

Users of Brave browser may need to disable specific privacy settings ("Prevent sites from fingerprinting me based on my language preferences") for the extension to function correctly. The GPL-3.0 license may restrict usage in proprietary software.