DXtractor

DXtractor v. 1.0 (Callsign Extractor) – Link TBA on the Chrome Web Store

By John Holstein, N8GB – nategeebee@gmail.com – n8gb.com

Chrome Extension (currently works with v. 156.0.8078.80 Official Build 64-bit)

Purpose: To extract, from text lists of current or future DXpeditions, a list of callsigns that will be active, push those callsigns into a link for DXSummit which will filter ONLY THOSE CALLSIGNS to the list generated by DXSummit for current spots.

What it does:

Currently, when activated, when you click on the Icon/Button for this extension, it reads the website you are currently visiting and extracts ALL callsigns following the “Callsigns:” field on the page, extracts what follows and puts them into a link for DXSummit.

ie.

In Chrome – Settings – Extensions. Click Chrome Web Store on the left edge.  On top, Search Extensions and Themes for “DXtractor”. Add To Chrome. Verify that it’s active in Chrome – Settings – Extensions. Notice at the top-right of Chrome, to the right of the address, ie. https://www.n8gb.com/DXtractor/, there should be an orangish icon/button for “DXtractor”.

Go to https://www.ng3k.com/Misc/adxoplain.html

On the Extension button, top-right of Chrome after the URL, click the Icon for “Callsign Extractor”. A popup asks you to “Build URL”, click it. Once it has extracted the callsigns, you should see an “Open Generated Link” link on the bottom of the popup. Click it, it should open up to something like this:

https://www.dxsummit.fi/#/?dx_calls=H44MS,5H3MB,3B9,E51MWA,TZ4AM,5R8IC

I will be trying to add a way for you to use your own URL in a future release.

What doesn’t this extension do? First, it doesn’t upload your DXCC most wanted list. It only consumes those callsigns from a webpage, preferably a text page and not HTML (it’s not been tested with HTML because it’s not intended for HTML) and generates a complete list of those callsigns and appends them to an existing URL used by sites such as DXSummit. It’s doesn’t “call home”, it doesn’t webbug you. There’s nothing in this published extension meant to collect any data and deliver it to me or any other entity. It’s between you and the website you’re visiting, they will of course know you’ve been there, etc. etc.

Shout out to the old Ohio/Penn Bulletin that I was subscribed to. Tedd decided to close it down today, so I had to come up with a new way of getting info. This actually works better for me because there’s not a bunch of other data included, it’s just the callsigns that are currently active (depending on the list you obtain them from). Visit a website, click the button, voila!

Feel free to modify this to suit your needs. Check the extension location for the files to modify in Details -> Source Unpacked extension Loaded from:

John/N8GB