New Term Radar

Installation

Install from the Chrome Web Store, or build and load it yourself.

Requirements

  • Chrome, Edge or another Chromium browser. Firefox is not supported.
  • Optional: an API key for any OpenAI-compatible provider (DeepSeek, OpenAI, a local server…).

Chrome Web Store

Install New Term Radar from the Chrome Web Store. Edge can install Chrome Web Store extensions too, after you allow extensions from other stores.

Add to ChromeExtension ID dfemginllpdccolmfnjieepipdcibkoh

Build the extension

To load it without the store you need Node.js 20+ and pnpm. From the extension's source folder:

cd new-term-radar
pnpm install
pnpm build

The build is written to new-term-radar/dist/chrome-mv3. Run pnpm test to run the unit tests.

Load it into Chrome

  1. Open chrome://extensions.
  2. Turn on Developer mode in the top-right corner.
  3. Click Load unpacked and choose new-term-radar/dist/chrome-mv3.
  4. Pin New Term Radar to the toolbar so the popup is one click away.

Before your first scan

  • Sign in to x.com in the same browser. X scans use your session.
  • Reddit works signed in or not.
  • Add an AI provider under Settings → AI (see AI provider). Radar works without one, but terms are not scored and there are no summaries.