UC Grabber
Simple tool for UoC students to enable easier downloads from Canvas and ilykei.com portals
What is UC Grabber?
UC Grabber is a Chrome extension developed by https://home.uchicago.edu/~sumitk, and its main feature is "Simple tool for UoC students to enable easier downloads from Canvas and ilykei.com portals".
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Download UC Grabber Extension CRX File
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Extension Usage Instructions
This simple Chrome extension is for University of Chicago students. Specially those who frequently use canvas.uchicago.edu and/or ilykei.com portals in their courses.
By default, these websites have cumbersome steps to batch download course documents belonging to a module or set of modules. This extension enables students to easily download the course materials.
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Changelog:
version 0.7 - released:03/31/2018
Fixed a bug that affected downloads for Time Series & Analysis course.
version 0.6 - released:03/31/2018
Disabled Easter egg.
version 0.5 - released:04/01/2018
- Fixed a bug that caused downloads failure for Machine Learning course on ilykei. A more generic standard is used now for naming the download directories.
- More security is added to prevent some hidden edge cases causing download failures.
version 0.4 - released:03/31/2018
Added an Easter egg for April Fool's Day.
version 0.3 - released:01/26/2018
Add a reload button to clear stored downloads info for a tab. This will allow user to move to another module page in the same tab and download new content.
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version 0.2 - released:01/25/2018
1. User can now close the popup box and move to other tabs after clicking Process
2. Download buttons for a page will be cached in background (events), so user will not have to click Process button more than once
4. Error check placed for cases when content script doesn't listen to the scrape request. User will now be suggested to refresh the page.
5. Performance improvement with jQuery selection logic
6. spaces allowed in directory names Extension Basic Information
| Name |  UC Grabber |
| ID | dimmeocemhglaadjicpnogdadmkkgpln |
| Official URL | https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/uc-grabber/dimmeocemhglaadjicpnogdadmkkgpln |
| Description | Simple tool for UoC students to enable easier downloads from Canvas and ilykei.com portals |
| File Size | 2.55 MB |
| Installation Count | 124 |
| Current Version | 0.7 |
| Last Updated | 2018-06-29 |
| Publish Date | 2018-06-29 |
| Rating | 5.00/5 Total 1 Ratings |
| Developer | https://home.uchicago.edu/~sumitk |
| [email protected] | |
| Payment Type | free |
| Supported Languages | en-US |
| manifest.json | |
{
"update_url": "https:\/\/clients2.google.com\/service\/update2\/crx",
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "UC Grabber",
"version": "0.7",
"short_name": "Make Canvas Great Again!",
"description": "Simple tool for UoC students to enable easier downloads from Canvas and ilykei.com portals",
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "images\/icon.png",
"default_popup": "html\/popup.html",
"default_title": "Grabber for uChicago Canvas!"
},
"icons": {
"16": "images\/icon16.png",
"48": "images\/icon48.png",
"128": "images\/icon128.png"
},
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": [
"*:\/\/canvas.uchicago.edu\/*"
],
"js": [
"scripts\/jquery-3.3.1.min.js",
"scripts\/content_canvas.js"
]
},
{
"matches": [
"*:\/\/ilykei.com\/*"
],
"js": [
"scripts\/jquery-3.3.1.min.js",
"scripts\/content_ilykei.js"
]
}
],
"permissions": [
"tabs",
"downloads"
],
"background": {
"scripts": [
"scripts\/events.js"
]
}
} | |
