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Paper spider

by iyad.y.sultan · Education
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

A spider walks to the passage you ask for in any PDF. Uses your own Claude API key.

Users
3
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Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
total ratings
Store rank
#352K
#269K among extensions
Version
1.0.0
updated 5 Oct 2026

About Paper spider

Ask a question about any PDF, and a small spider walks across the page to the passage that answers it. HOW IT WORKS • Open any PDF in Chrome. A round "Paper spider" button appears at the bottom right. • Press it. The PDF opens in the spider viewer. • Type what you are looking for, such as "What was the main result?" or "Where are the limitations?", and press Find it. • The quote shows at the bottom right away. The words light up on the page when the spider reaches them. • Find more looks for a different passage that answers the same question. WHAT YOU NEED • Your own Anthropic API key (from console.anthropic.com). Press "Claude key" once and paste it. • Without a key, text PDFs still work with simple word matching. Scanned PDFs and photos need the key, because Claude reads them as pictures. PRIVACY • Your key is stored only in this browser. • When you search, your question and the PDF text go straight from your browser to Anthropic. There is no other server. • No tracking, no analytics, no ads. OTHER • Dark page mode for reading at night. • Open PDFs or images from your computer with "Open a PDF or image". • Click anywhere on the page to call the spider over. • To read PDFs saved on your computer, turn on "Allow access to file URLs" for Paper spider in chrome://extensions. Paper spider is not made by or affiliated with Anthropic.

Growth

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Version history

1 versions recorded
1.0.05 Oct 2026

Details

Category
Education
First seen
5 Oct 2026
Size
404 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
iyadsultan.github.io
Extension ID
kedddpjpbhpcaccipbkmoejplfimehci

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 3
Permissions
storage
Site access
<all_urls>
Can read and change data on every website you visit.

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