Legally read news and research papers for free, on any device.

Latest Version

Version
1.0.1
Update
January 23, 2024
Size
63.69KiB
Developer
spaywall.com
Category
Users
40,000+
Rating
3.45263 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
ActiveTab
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Spaywall News & Research - spay your paywall Extension

Spaywall News & Research is the original browser extension that helps you LEGALLY avoid paywalls by searching online archives and redirecting you to a paywall-free version. By pointing your browser to a different website, we are not bypassing or interfering with the paywall on the original article source in any way.

Researchers can also use Spaywall to download free versions of Open Access research papers and articles. Click to search our database of millions of legal, free, full-text scholarly articles and we'll redirect you to the PDF instantly. These Open Access articles are research papers that have been posted with the full permission of the authors and publishers involved. Save time avoiding paywalls and logins, great for students and academics!


Please Note:
✓ Spaywall can be used for 100% FREE, though the Free plan has limitations.
✓ Upgrading gives News junkies additional archive sources for even better news coverage.
✓ Upgrading also gives 24/7 All-Hours Access instead of limited to off-peak hours.
✓ Our algorithm strives to find an archived article that is paywall-free. It's pretty good, but it can never work on all articles.
✓ Because we are searching online archives for a paywall-free copy, an archived copy must already exist. That means articles may need to be a few days old for them to have been crawled by the archivers (though we have seen same-day news work many times!)
✓ If you frequent a particular news outlet, please consider directly supporting the journalism you love.
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Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

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Dan Menkin (ID: 0000000e2a7a4d83) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 05/09/2024 This site is such a Blessing!!! It works perfectly and let's me read so many sources that otherwise block me -- most wonderful! I use Google News and click stories i want to read, but so many of them then block the content, so now i just click the Spaywall icon and it opens a site where i can read the full article. THANK YOU! friends at Spaywall for making this service freely available to those of us who cannot afford subscriptions to all the magazines and papers we like to read.

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Luminosity Deville (ID: 000000b898e6499d) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 12/25/2023 EDIT: Now I have to pay for every site because I'm not a "premium user." BOO. Used to be "read this article" and now there's nothing but search news or search academia. When you put that link into the search, you will be informed that you're not a premium user. Oh well. And after asking me to change my review. hmmmm EDIT: After timely and pleasant communication with the Spaywall team, I have had no problem accessing the paywalled sites that I've tried to access since then. So thanks for beeping me! This extension didn't work on any of the news sites or other paywalls that I attempted. I really wanted this to work but it doesn't. If y'all fix it, beep me.

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Andrew james (ID: 0000001b682b7cd3) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 11/02/2023 Doesn't work. couldn't use it. Can't find the article referred to

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cv 56 (ID: 0000007d57049a2a) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/02/2023 it works thank you very much !

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肯尼晋三 (ID: 00000076f040b226) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 10/30/2023 That's great!