Curius.app open source status - Claude
is curious.app open source? can we reverse engineer it enough to build a copy that handles the same variety of websites curius does? No, Curius isn’t open source. Its Firefox add-on listing shows the license as “All Rights Reserved,” with the only linked site being curius.app itself, and I couldn’t find any public repository for the extension or the backend. It also looks lightly maintained: the Chrome version is 0.2.8.28, last updated October 24, 2023. mozilla google On reverse engineering: you can unpack the extension and read its JavaScript, since extensions ship as code bundles. But with an all-rights-reserved license, copying that code into your own product is infringement. The safer route is a clean-room build: work out what it does from using it, then write your own implementation. Fortunately you don’t need their code, because the hard parts have well-documented open-source solutions. What Curius actually does is fairly simple at the product level. You click the extension