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Augmented Browsing Software
Name Form Features Compatibility Last Updated
AlchemyPoint Firefox extension with a client-side Proxy Server Allows manipulation of web content, scraping of data from websites, detection/parsing of microformats, etc. 2007
BFilter Open source, client-side proxy server Allows manipulation of page content Available in many OS flavors 2008
Bookmarklets JavaScript Can execute arbitrary JavaScript on any page, but requires a user to click them, rather than running automatically Always working
Chickenfoot Firefox extension Enables end-users and hackers to script interactions on the Web Not supported after Firefox V3 2009
Firebug Firefox extension for developers Allows arbitrary real time changes to a page's DOM 2017
Grammarly Browser extension Grammar, plagiarism and spell checker which can retrieve definitions and synonyms for marked words. Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE10+ 2017
GrimeApe JavaScript injection proxy Provides the GreaseMonkey API for running userscripts Konqueror and Firefox are supported 2009
Greasekit Provides userscripting for Safari (WebKit) 2008
Greasemonkey Firefox extension Alters the output of web content immediately after being displayed Firefox, Flock and Web (formerly Epiphany). 2017
iMacros Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer extension Allows the user to record and replay "Internet Macros" for web automation, web scraping or web testing. 2016
Jetpack Firefox extension providing robust API Allows writing Firefox scripts (jetpacks) using JavaScript, jQuery and Firebug 2014
Kango Framework Cross-browser extension framework Allows creating extensions for 5 popular browsers using JavaScript only Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari 2016
Lubemonkey Firefox extension Fork of Greasemonkey that stores persistent data in SQLite databases for efficiency. 2012
MouseHole Ruby-based client-side proxy server Allows manipulation of page content 2009
Muffin Java open-source stand alone proxy server Allows manipulation of page content (usually client-side, but sports a web interface in addition to a Swing GUI for configuration) 2013
NinjaKit Browser extension Allows manipulation of webpage content via Greasemonkey scripts Chrome, Safari 2012
Platypus Firefox extension Interactive modification of content from the browser, and optionally save the transformations as a Greasemonkey script for future use 2014
Privoxy Open source, client-side proxy server Allows manipulation of page content Available in many OS flavors 2016
Proximodo Open source, client-side proxy server Inspired by and interoperable with Proxomitron. Allows page content manipulation 2005
Proxomitron Proxy-level language Available since late 1990s, predates JavaScript active browsing and provides a similar function for all browsers using a regular expression-like matching language 2003
Reflect Sends document to remote server for tagging Tags the names of chemicals, genes, and proteins; clicking on a tag opens summary popups. Supported on Firefox and IE 2010
Scone Open source stand alone proxy server (client and server side) Allows manipulation of transferred web resources. It also provides personal web crawler, user action logging, and an mysql persistence component. 2009
Stylish Firefox extension using Cascading Style Sheets Client-side manipulation of webpage content 2017
Stylus Firefox extension using Cascading Style Sheets Client-side manipulation of webpage content Chrome, Firefox, Opera 2017
Tampermonkey Browser extension Allows manipulation of webpage content via Greasemonkey scripts Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox (Desktop and Android), Safari, Opera Next, Vivaldi 2017
TOMODO Crowd source augmented browsing. Server Side. Allows real time modification of web resources. No installation required. Supports all platforms and browsers. 2013
Violentmonkey Browser extension Allows manipulation of webpage content via Greasemonkey scripts Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Maxthon 2017