Simple English 🌐

Explore rabbit holes for text-based articles.

About

Turn any Wikipedia page into Simple English. Expand interesting concepts further via telescopic text.

See a brief demo here.

TO-DOs...

• Improve Wikipedia article parsing
• Preserve more of the original article
• Use an existing simple translation, if available
• Add multipage view (i.e., side peek)
• Improve prompt for summary
• Improve prompt for in-text expansions
• Pre-load expansions
• Smarter caching in some sort of bucket
• Add "bring your own token" support
• Deploy the project

Want to help? See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Usage

A guide to running the project on your local machine.

Server

1. Run bash scripts/setup.sh to get setup for running the server.
2. Run source env/bin/activate.
3. Add your OpenAI API key in .env. Finally, run make run-server.

Client

1. Install pnpm (e.g., brew install pnpm).
2. Then run pnpm install and pnpm dev to build the project.
3. Load the unpacked extension into Chrome the usual way (chrome://extensions).

Note that plasmo supports hot reloading the development version of the extension.