This functionality is now available in the main repo here
Brocrobes is the Chrome-compatible web extension for interacting with the content enrichment system of Transcrobes (https://transcrob.es). It allows you to take (virtually) any webpage and enrich it with personalised, hypertext-based comprehension aids. It requires an existing account on a Transcrobes server.
All Transcrobes software, including brocrobes, is open source and is initially being developed as part of Anton Melser's PhD research platform.
See https://transcrob.es for more information about the component parts and the ongoing research project it is a part of.
Brocrobes is currently alpha software, and is being actively developed as part of an academic research project.
Installation can either be done from the Chrome Web Store by searching for brocrobes, or by putting Chrome in developer mode, cloning/downloading this repository and then pointing to the src directory. See the Chrome website for further instructions on installing extensions in developer mode.
There are currently no public Transcrobes servers so you will need your own server installation for this extension to be of any use. See https://transcrob.es on how to install a Transcrobes server.
If you are actively learning Chinese, have native-like English, and you are willing to participate in Anton Melser's PhD research, then please contact him at anton@transcrob.es about getting an account. Participating in the research will give you free access until at least 2023, and you will always be able to install and manage your own platform.
You will also need a user to be created on the server, a username and password for accessing the server, along with the server's publicly accessible URL.
You should then go to the extension properties page and fill in these values. Until you fill in correct values there, clicking the "Transcrobe me!" button/menu entry will fail. Error messages only appear in the developer console.
Please check the issues (and create if needed) for things to work on.
Please sign all your commits by using git -s. In the context of this project this means that you are signing the document available at https://developercertificate.org/. This basically certifies that you have the right to make the contributions you are making, given this project's licence. You retain copyright over all your contributions - this sign-off does NOT give others any special rights over your copyrighted material in addition to the project's licence.
See the website for more information. Please also take a look at our code of conduct (or CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md in this repo).