List of augmented browsing software
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Name | Form | Features | Compatibility |
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AlchemyPoint | Firefox extension with a client-side Proxy Server | Allows manipulation of web content, scraping of data from websites, detection/parsing of microformats, etc. | |
BFilter | Open source, client-side proxy server | Allows manipulation of page content | Available in many OS flavors |
Bookmarklets | JavaScript | Can execute arbitrary JavaScript on any page, but requires a user to click them, rather than running automatically | |
Bubbles | Site-Specific-Browser | Uses JS injection of user-scripts, very much like Greasemonkey. | |
Chickenfoot | Firefox extension | Enables end-users and hackers to script interactions on the Web | Not supported after Firefox V3 |
Firebug | Firefox extension for developers | Allows arbitrary real time changes to a page's DOM | |
GOFinder | Based on Internet Explorer | Allows playing music while navigating, can boot as a shell too. | Works best with IE9 installed. |
Grammarly | Browser extension | Grammar, plagiarism and spell checker which can retrieve definitions and synonyms for marked words. | Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE10+ |
GrimeApe | JavaScript injection proxy | Provides the GreaseMonkey API for running userscripts | Konqueror and Firefox are supported |
Greasekit | Provides userscripting for Safari (WebKit) | ||
Greasemonkey | Firefox extension | Alters the output of web content immediately after being displayed | Firefox, Flock and Web (formerly Epiphany). |
iMacros | Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer extension | Allows the user to record and replay "Internet Macros" for web automation, web scraping or web testing. | |
Jetpack | Firefox extension providing robust API | Allows writing Firefox scripts (jetpacks) using JavaScript, jQuery and Firebug | |
Kango Framework | Cross-browser extension framework | Allows creating extensions for 5 popular browsers using JavaScript only | Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari |
Lubemonkey | Firefox extension | Fork of Greasemonkey that stores persistent data in SQLite databases for efficiency. | |
MouseHole | Ruby-based client-side proxy server | Allows manipulation of page content | |
Muffin | Java open-source stand alone proxy server | Allows manipulation of page content (usually client-side, but sports a web interface in addition to a Swing GUI for configuration) | |
Platypus | Firefox extension | Interactive modification of content from the browser, and optionally save the transformations as a Greasemonkey script for future use | |
Privoxy | Open source, client-side proxy server | Allows manipulation of page content | Available in many OS flavors |
Proximodo | Open source, client-side proxy server | Inspired by and interoperable with Proxomitron. Allows page content manipulation | |
Proxomitron | Proxy-level language | Available since late 1990s, predates JavaScript active browsing and provides a similar function for all browsers using a regular expression-like matching language | |
Reflect | Sends document to remote server for tagging | Tags the names of chemicals, genes, and proteins; clicking on a tag opens summary popups. | Supported on Firefox and IE |
Scone | Open source stand alone proxy server (client and server side) | Allows manipulation of transferred web resources. It also provides personal web crawler, user action logging, and an mysql persistence component. | |
Stylish | Firefox extension using Cascading Style Sheets | Client-side manipulation of webpage content | |
TOMODO | Crowd source augmented browsing. Server Side. | Allows real time modification of web resources. No installation required. | Supports all platforms and browsers. |