link-loop

🔗 LinkLoop – Visualize Your Web Browsing as a Graph

LinkLoop is a Chrome extension that transforms your browser history into an interactive force-directed graph. It helps you understand your browsing behavior, track page visits over time, and explore how you move through the web.

LinkLoop Graph Screenshot

✨ Features

🧠 Automatic History Tracking – Logs visited pages and timestamps while browsing.
📊 Force-Directed Graph – Pages appear as nodes, and links show your navigation flow.
🎨 Color-Coded by Frequency – More visited pages appear darker.
🗓️ Date Filters – View today’s activity, last 3/7 days, or set a custom range.
🖱️ Interactive – Hover for tooltips, drag nodes, zoom and pan freely.
💾 Privacy-Friendly – All data stays local in your browser storage.

🛠 How It Works

Background Script tracks active tab changes and page visits.
Popup offers quick access to the “View My Web Graph” button.
Graph Page (graph.html) renders the visualization using D3.js.

🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/linkloop-extension.git
cd linkloop-extension

2. Load the extension in Chrome

Go to chrome://extensions
Enable Developer Mode
Click “Load unpacked”
Select the folder where this repo is located

📂 Folder Structure

📁 linkloop-extension/
├── manifest.json
├── background.js
├── popup.html
├── popup.js
├── graph.html
├── graph.js
├── d3.v7.min.js
├── icons/
│   ├── icon16.png
│   ├── icon48.png
│   └── icon128.png
├── style.css
└── README.md

📸 Screenshots

Store-required size: 1280×800

You can find example screenshots in the /screenshots folder or generate your own by opening the graph view and capturing your browser window.

🛡️ Privacy & Permissions

LinkLoop uses the following permissions:

tabs, history, storage, activeTab
No external APIs or trackers — all processing is done locally

📦 Build for Web Store

To publish:

Create a .zip of the extension files (exclude .git, node_modules, etc.)
Go to the Chrome Web Store Developer Dashboard
Upload your .zip, write your listing, and submit for review

🙌 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! If you have ideas for better visualizations, analytics, or UI improvements — open an issue or fork and PR.