Browser extension
Some portals block automated requests, so analysing a link does not always find enough. This is what the extension is for: it reads the listing in your own browser, where the page is already open, and opens it in the analysis with its photos.
What it does
- On a listing page it reads the title, the body text, the stated facts (year built, floor area, price) and the link to the listing.
- It downloads up to six gallery photos, each at most 3 MB, JPEG, PNG or WebP only.
- It opens the analysis on dragaslovenija.si and fills the box and the photo list with all of it.
- You run the analysis, with your own account. It counts against your monthly analyses like any other.
On single listing pages at nepremicnine.net, bolha.com and re-max.si. On any other page the button still tries to read what it can see; we simply promise nothing there.
Installing it
Chrome, Edge, Brave and the rest of Chromium
The extension is not in the Chrome Web Store yet. Until it is, install it by hand, which takes half a minute:
- Download and unpack the archive, or run
npm run extensionin a checkout of the project. - Open
chrome://extensionsin Chrome. - Turn on Developer mode, top right.
- Press Load unpacked and pick the
extension/dist/chrome/folder.
Firefox
The extension is not on addons.mozilla.org yet. Until it is, load it temporarily, which lasts until you close the browser:
- Download and unpack the archive, or run
npm run extension. - Open
about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefoxin Firefox. - Press Load Temporary Add-on and pick the
extension/dist/firefox/manifest.jsonfile. - Firefox asks about site permissions separately: in Add-ons, allow the extension access to the portal sites, or it cannot download the photos.
Using it
- Open a listing on a portal.
- Press the extension's icon in the toolbar.
- Press Analyse this listing.
- A new tab opens with the analysis already running.
What leaves the page
- The extension holds no key, no password and no token. The analysis runs in your own session on dragaslovenija.si, exactly as if you had pasted the text yourself.
- Nothing runs until you press the button. The extension asks for
activeTab, which is access to one tab, and only after you open it yourself. - What it reads goes to dragaslovenija.si and nowhere else. We do not pass it on, we do not track the portals, and we do not log which pages you opened.
- Your photos stay yours. They are read into the analysis and not stored, which has been true of uploaded photos all along.
- The capture waits in the browser's memory until the analysis page takes it, then it is deleted. Nothing is written to disk.
The same thing without it
- On the listing page, select the text (Ctrl + A) and copy it (Ctrl + C).
- Open the analysis and paste the text into the box instead of the link.
- Save the photos by right-clicking, then add them under the box, up to six at a time.
- Press the button. The result is the same; the extension only saves the steps.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need the extension at all?
No. Analysing a link works on its own. But some portals turn servers away, and then the link alone does not yield the year built and the floor area, without which the building cannot be pinned in the cadastre. Your browser is already welcome on that page, so the extension reads what a server cannot.
Does it scrape the portal?
No. It reads the page already open in your browser, and only when you press the button yourself. Nothing opens in the background, nothing works through a list of listings, and nothing is kept for later. It is the same thing as selecting and copying.
Do I need an account?
Yes, a free one is enough. The analysis runs in your session and counts against your monthly analyses like any other.
Why do the photos sometimes not come through?
Some portals serve photos from another domain that refuses to let the browser read them. The extension then tries to fetch them itself, and if that fails too it leaves them out. The analysis runs without them, and you can always add photos by hand.