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Great tool overall - thanks for the effort.

We're having some issues with non-ASCII text. If a URL has non-ASCII characters (eg something from Japanese Wikipedia - https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E5%B7%9E) it won't scrape correctly. If you paste in the text instead, TimeLineCurator still grabs dates correctly, but the text is mangled rather than accurately representing the characters - see below.

Hi, kudos for the very interesting approach.
I am trying the website for an historical research on New York architects in the Eighteen Hundreds.
There is a bug when a decennial date is provided, eg. 1860s. TLC understands it as "1960-1969) instead of "1860-1869".

Is there a way I can install the whole application locally, for example using a docker container?
I have a lot of biographies to treat (approx. 2200) and it would be more efficient to do it locally.

In the timeline view, I would like to drag- or lasso- select multiple events.

In the list view, the current shift-click multi-select behaviour is ctrl-click multi-select in most other applications. I would like to be able to shift-click select multiple consecutive events in the list view; the current shift-click multi-select should be retained as ctrl-click select.

Potential extension to export options: Create Google Spreadsheet as used for TimelineJS, that can then easily be saved into the user's Google Drive folder.
But it seems rather complicated to create a spreadsheet that is not initially connected to an account, see this Stackoverflow question.
The Google App Script documentation does not include such a case as far as I can see. Are there alternatives?

For example, should tag "late 1990s" or "early 1980s".

Right now, only the decade itself is recognized, so early 1990s is always represented as 1990-2000.

just discovered this project from a @tamaramunzner talk. nice work!

I'd really like to be able to share a permalink for a document that I am looking at so that I can show my friend this document with the exact selection (highlighted node and text) that I am looking at.

an example TimeLineCurator state that I would like to share with a friend: