Hey HN! I wanted to share a chrome extension I built for myself called From Chaos.<p>It's an extension that takes the content of the page and organizes it into structured data. For instance, taking all the restaurants on a "top 10" article and just returning their names.<p>It requires an OpenAI API key that you can set in your settings, and lets you get data back as JSON, YAML, CSV, or plain text.<p>I built it to help in my data-gathering efforts, but wanted to share in case it's useful to someone else as well! It doesn't always return perfect data, but it does save me quite a bit of time.
So there are definitely some features I'd like to add / improve upon:
- json/yaml/etc validation
- better pre-filtering before the openAI api call to save money
- custom select (instead of the whole page)
- adjustable models
- the page doesn't disappear when you close it / data caching<p>but before those, I wanted to launch it to see if anyone would actually use this besides me. Let me know!
This is a cool idea. Can it run outside of the extension ecosystem - like as a cli tool? I could see some use-cases/integration using it that way but not as much as an extension