Rudolph

A fast, customizable market dashboard for every new tab.

Install Locally For Development

1. Open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions.
2. Turn on Developer mode.
3. Click Load unpacked.
4. Select the cloned rudolph repository folder.
5. Open a new tab. Chrome should load Rudolph as the new-tab page.

After editing files, return to chrome://extensions and click the reload button on the Rudolph extension card, then open a new tab again.

What Rudolph Is

Rudolph is a customizable Chrome new-tab dashboard for tracking market symbols. It shows live quote data, after-hours movement, and draggable chart widgets for intraday, monthly, yearly, and all-time views.

The dashboard stores layout, selected symbols, hidden widgets, theme, and appearance preferences locally in the browser. It does not require a backend service.

Features

• Live stock watchlist with search and removable tracked symbols.
• Default fresh-install watchlist using broad popular market symbols.
• Header quote summary with regular and extended-hours prices.
• Left-side contextual market-news feed with manual and five-minute live refresh, infinite older-story loading, and secure new-tab article links.
• Draggable and resizable Gridstack dashboard widgets.
• Chart.js visualizations for hour, day, month, year, and all-time ranges.
• Theme families for Samsung OneUI, Apple Liquid Glass, Cisco Momentum, Windows Fluent, Google Material, and IBM Carbon.
• Independent appearance mode: Auto, Light, or Dark.
• Auto appearance follows Chrome/system color settings where supported.

Data Source

Stock data and the freshest ticker headlines are fetched from Yahoo Finance. Older headline history and matching archive thumbnails are loaded on demand from Google News. Both public hosts are declared in manifest.json:

"host_permissions": [
  "https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/*",
  "https://news.google.com/*"
]

The app includes graceful fallback behavior for chart and quote loading, and shows placeholders while data is still loading.

Development

This project is plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. There is no build step required for normal extension development.

Useful checks:

node --test test/extended-hours.test.js
node --test test/news-feed.test.js
node --test test/package-release.test.js
node --check js/app.js

Useful local preview:

python3 -m http.server 8765

Then open:

http://127.0.0.1:8765/index.html

The extension entrypoint is newtab.html; index.html is useful for local browser preview.

Packaging

Semantic version tracking lives in VERSION, and manifest.json must use the same version.

Create the Chrome extension package:

./package.sh

This creates one installable extension zip in dist/, with manifest.json at the zip root:

dist/Rudolph-<version>-chrome-extension.zip

Release

Create a signed semantic version tag and publish a GitHub release:

GITHUB_TOKEN=... ./release.sh

The release script:

• Reads VERSION.
• Requires manifest.json to match VERSION.
• Creates a signed tag named v<VERSION>.
• Pushes the tag to origin.
• Packages the extension.
• Creates a GitHub release with generated release notes.
• Uploads the single extension zip as the release asset.

Preview without creating tags or releases:

./release.sh --dry-run

Repository Notes

This repository is intended to be public and personal. Avoid company-specific defaults, private links, private logic, or personally identifiable information in committed source.