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ERP CV Deadline Highlighter November 2025

GitHub
Chrome Extension
JavaScript

A Chrome extension that highlights CV and placement deadlines in IIT Kharagpur's ERP portal.

IIT Kharagpur's ERP placement portal buries CV submission deadlines in dense tables that are very easy to miss at a glance during placement season, when there are a dozen things due across different companies at once. This extension fixes that with color-coded visual highlighting directly on the portal page — no more scanning a wall of text to figure out what's due today versus next week.

It's a plain Manifest V3 Chrome extension — content.js injects the highlighting logic directly into the ERP page, background.js handles the extension lifecycle, and a small popup (popup.html/popup.js) gives quick access to settings — installed as an unpacked extension via Developer Mode rather than through the Chrome Web Store, since that requires a developer account fee I haven't set up yet. It also works fine in Brave and Edge through the same "load unpacked" flow, since they're all Chromium under the hood.

Small, single-purpose tool: one page it targets, one problem it solves, and it's been genuinely useful every placement cycle since.