Clever
As a student and research assistant, I found myself getting frustrated at the paywalls that I would face when I wanted to access an online article or database. There were workarounds like SciHub, library access, and others, but redirecting myself to a new platform just to bypass a paywall interrupted my workflow.
I thought an automatic-redirect script or mechanism shouldn't be too hard to build. I would simply need to scrape the URLs that my school used to redirect students to a proxy-login of a given site, and match them to a corresponding list of URLs where a user might encounter a paywall, detected by a background script.
Clever was a solution that I came up with, and I even decided to start adding more schools than just my own. Users can select their university, and Clever will check against their school's library resources whenever they encounter a paywalled article or site to see if they have access. If they do, a small popup will appear, helping them easily redirect to a university proxy/login for that site.