- Go to the latest release under Releases
- Download ChromeGPT.zip and unzip it
- In Google Chrome:
- Go to Manage Extensions
- Enable Developer Mode
- Click Load Unpacked Extension
- Select the ChromeGPT folder that you unzipped
- The extension should now be available!
Note
Installing an extension via Developer Mode bypasses review and security measures. I vouch for the code in this repository not doing anything malicious, but it’s always a good idea to carefully review the code before running it, since this extension is able to inject code into, and take screenshots of, all of your browser tabs. That said, a surprising number of extensions are able to do this, so always be careful!
This Chrome extension will be able to take a screenshot of any of your tabs, and then send the screenshot to ChatGPT, optionally with an associated message (if you don’t write anything, it defaults to “Describe this image”).
To open it, you can press Alt+C / Option+C. This is what it looks like:
To send the query to ChatGPT, hit Enter. If you already have a ChatGPT tab open, you can pick it in the dropdown. The extension will send the image off to whichever ChatGPT tab you chose and switch to that tab, wait for the image to upload, then send your message:
More concretely, this extension injects a bit of JavaScript that finds a
<textarea>, sends it a fake paste event containing the image as a File and
then a fake input event with the text. Then it waits for up to one minute to
see if the button with data-testid*="send-button" becomes enabled, and
proceeds to click it when it does.
For the most part this has been stable, but I did recently notice that some
versions of the ChatGPT UI have data-testid="fruitjuice-send-button" while
others have data-testid="send-button". For this reason I’ve tried to make the
code flexible to renames like these.