Browser extension · Free & open source

Weather and tide for your eBird checklist, in one click

SnowRaven Mini puts the SnowRaven app's weather and tide right on the eBird checklist page. Open it on a checklist's Edit Comments page and the weather is already on your clipboard, formatted the same way as SnowRaven, with the tide right below.

Get SnowRaven Mini View on GitHub

Chrome & Firefox  ·  No account, no telemetry

ebird.org/edit/effort
SnowRaven MiniThe Battery, NYJun 7, 6:42am
Weather✓ Copied
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Overcast clouds
Temperature: 54°F
Wind: Gentle breeze
Wind Direction: W
Humidity: 89%
✓ Copied to clipboard. Paste it into your comment.
TideCopy
🌊
Observed
Water level: 2.3 – 5.6 ft
Tide: Rising
Next high: 5.6 ft at 1:58pm
Station: The Battery, 3.4 mi
SnowRaven Mini · Help
WeatherCopied ✓
Tide5.6 ft rising

Privacy by design

Your keys stay on your device

SnowRaven Mini has no account, no analytics, no telemetry, and no server. You bring your own two free API keys, for eBird and OpenWeather. They are stored only in your browser and each is sent only to its own service. NOAA tide data needs no key. There is nothing in the middle.

  • You bring the keysTwo free keys, entered once on the Settings page.
  • No trackingZero analytics or telemetry, in either browser.
  • Keys stay localStored in chrome.storage.local, sent only to each API.
  • No developer serverThere is no SnowRaven Mini cloud. Nothing to run.

What it does

Weather and tide, without leaving eBird

One click on a checklist resolves where and when you were, fetches the weather and tide, and hands them to you ready to paste.

One-click weather and tide

Open the popup on a checklist's Edit Comments page and the weather block copies itself, in the same format the SnowRaven desktop app produces, including the moon-phase emoji on night checklists. The tide for the nearest NOAA station sits right below with its own copy button. Switch to the comment field and paste.

SnowRaven MiniThe Battery, NYJun 7, 9:12pm
Weather✓ Copied
☁️🌗
Overcast clouds
Temperature: 61°F
Wind: Light breeze
Sunset: 8:24pm
✓ Copied to clipboard.
TideCopy
🌊
Observed · 2.3 – 5.6 ft
Rising · next high 1:58pm
Station: The Battery

Your keys, your device

Paste your two free keys once on the Settings page. They live in your browser's local storage and are sent only to eBird and OpenWeather, never to anyone else. There is no account and no server.

SnowRaven Mini

Your keys stay on this device.

eBird API keyGet a free key ›
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OpenWeather API keyGet a free key ›
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✓ Saved
Keys stay on this device, sent only to eBird and OpenWeather.

Asks only for what it needs

SnowRaven Mini reaches three APIs, eBird, OpenWeather, and NOAA, and nothing else. It requests that access from your click the first time you use it, not at install, so there is no broad-permission warning and no surprise.

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Allow SnowRaven Mini to reach these?

It calls eBird, OpenWeather, and NOAA directly from your browser, nothing else.

  • api.ebird.org
  • api.openweathermap.org
  • api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov

Also get the tides

Tide is for US coastal checklists. When the nearest NOAA station is too far away or your checklist is inland, SnowRaven Mini says so plainly, with an override to show the nearest station anyway, rather than inventing a number.

SnowRaven MiniRidgefield NWR, WAMay 19, 7:10am
Weather✓ Copied
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Clear sky
Temperature: 61°F
Wind: Light breeze
Tide
The nearest tide station is 38 miles away.

Get started

Add it to your browser

SnowRaven Mini is on the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. Prefer not to use a store? You can install straight from the GitHub release.

Available on theChrome Web Store Install Available onFirefox Add-ons Install

On Microsoft Edge or another Chromium browser? You can install it from the Chrome Web Store too. The install guide has the steps.

Install from the release

Prefer not to use a store, or want to pin a specific version? Grab the latest release and load it in your browser. The same build works in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. The step-by-step guide walks through it.

Download the latest release Install guide

A small companion to SnowRaven, shared freely

SnowRaven Mini does one job: the weather and tide comment blocks, in your browser, the same way the SnowRaven desktop app makes them. It is open source and free, with nothing to sign up for and nothing to buy.

Download the latest release View the source on GitHub