July 18, 2026

Abseil Chrome Extension

Work in progress This project is actively being built. If there are links use at your own risk. This page might also be out of date.

A Chrome extension that detects the page you're on and activates the right download tool for it — like rappelling down a page to extract its assets. Source on GitHub.

  • Pinterest Board Downloader - Grabs every pin from a board at full resolution
  • Behance Project Downloader - Saves all images from a project page at maximum quality
  • Font Collector - Lists and downloads a page's webfonts (woff2, woff, ttf, otf, eot) — works on any site

Everything is saved into organized folders under Downloads/Abseil/. Built as a Manifest V3 extension in plain JavaScript, it runs entirely locally — no servers, no analytics, no external calls — and works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, and other Chromium browsers.

The Abseil popup showing the Fonts tool listing a page's webfonts, each with a Download button
The Fonts tool listing a page's webfonts, ready to download — github.com/smombartz/abseil

A background router reads the active tab's URL and mounts the matching tool, falling back to Fonts when nothing site-specific applies. Pinterest and Behance run as declared content scripts so their long download jobs can be cancelled mid-run; the font collector is injected on demand instead, so it costs nothing until you open it. It asks for activeTab, scripting, and downloads, plus host access to read cross-origin stylesheets and frames. Built with Claude.

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