Project - Carbon Offset Chrome Extension
Webscraping hackathon project that uses Checkbook’s API to automatically pay offsets to green charities when shopping on Amazon.
- Title
- PayBack
- Year
- Categories
- Environtmental Charity
Overview
My freshman year at Duke, I entered HackDuke 2022, a hackathon focused on inequality, health, education, and the environment. My team focused on the latter and tried to make it easier to combat one's carbon footprint when online shopping.
The extension webscrapes Amazon for information such as where the item ships from, its weight, and what category of item it is. PayBack then calculates a rough estimate to donate to a green charity of your choice without having to leave the page. We used Checkbook's API for payments through email.
View the GitHub repo here.
Tech Stack
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Checkbook