I am building a Chrome extension that injects some HTML and JS when the user clicks the extension icon. So, when the icon is clicked, it is registered in the bg script, and the content script is notified about this like so:
Background script
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(iconClicked)
function iconClicked(tab) {
var visitors = window.AllVisitors.get(tab.id),
data = {
message: 'toggleMenu',
user: window.user
};
chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tab.id, data);
}
Now, to the problem: In my manifest file, I have also added a custom page for the chrome://newtab page. When the extension icon is clicked while visiting this custom newtab page, the content script does not receive any message what so ever. The default newtab page does actually receive the message as well as any other webpage.
I am thinking that maybe it has something to do with externally_connectable, but adding this does not help:
"externally_connectable": {
"matches": ["chrome://newtab/"],
}
Does anybody know why my custom newtab page does not receive any messages from the background script? Any help is very appreciated!
Manifest file:
{
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "Orbit",
"version": "0.0.1",
"web_accessible_resources": [
"templates.html",
"img/icon48.png",
"fonts/*.woff",
"img/*"
],
"externally_connectable": {
"matches": ["chrome://newtab/"],
},
"chrome_url_overrides" : {
"newtab": "tab/newtab.html"
},
"icons": {
"16": "img/icon16.png",
"48": "img/icon48.png",
"128": "img/icon128.png"
},
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": {
"16": "img/icon16.png",
"48": "img/icon48.png",
"128": "img/icon128.png"
},
"default_title": "Orbit"
},
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": ["<all_urls>"],
"js": ["vendor/chrome-promise.js", "vendor/jquery.js", "vendor/underscore.js", "vendor/backbone.js", "orbit.js"]
},
{
"matches": ["<all_urls>"],
"css": ["sidebar.css"]
}
],
"background": {
"scripts": ["vendor/socket.io.js", "vendor/jquery.js", "vendor/underscore.js", "vendor/backbone.js", "vendor/chrome-promise.js", "vendor/jquery.js", "eventPage.js"],
"persistent": true
},
"permissions": [
"http://fonts.googleapis.com/*",
"https://fonts.googleapis.com/*",
"https://get-orbit.com:8080/*",
"activeTab",
"tabs",
"storage"
]
}
Content scripts aren't injected on chrome-extension:// pages.
Simply add the script manually in your newtab.html:
<html>
<head>
<script src="your-content-script.js"></script>
</head>
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I'm trying to intercept youtube requests response from a devtool panel and send it to the content or background script of a Chrome extension. but I can't get it to work.
There is loads of exemple online but most of them use Manifest V2 and I really want to make it work on V3.
I don't know which method to use for sending messages to the content or background script from the panel.js, nor do I know how to listen for incoming messages from the panel in those scripts.
And I don't know if I need to add more permissions in my manifest for this to work :
{
"manifest_version": 3,
"name": "Already Seen",
"version": "1",
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": ["<all_urls>"],
"js": ["jquery-3.6.0.min.js", "content.js"],
"css": ["avatar.css"]
}
],
"devtools_page" : "devtools.html",
"action": {
"default_icon": "icon.png"
},
"background": {
"service_worker": "background.js"
},
"permissions": ["identity", "storage", "tabs", "webRequest"],
"host_permissions": ["https://www.youtube.com/", "https://youtube.com/"],
"externally_connectable": {
"matches": ["https://youtube.com/*"]
},
"oauth2": {
"client_id": "***************",
"scopes": [
"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email",
"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile"
]
}
}
devtools.html
<script src="devtools.js"></script>
devtools.js
chrome.devtools.panels.create("Already Seen", "icon.png", 'panel.html');
panel.html
<html>
<body>
<script src="panel.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
panel.js
chrome.devtools.network.onRequestFinished.addListener((request) => {
request.getContent((body) => {
if (!request.request || !request.request.url) return;
// I NEED TO SEND THE MESSAGE HERE TO BACKGROUND.JS OR CONTENT.JS
});
});
I found another way of doing this by using the chrome.debbuger in the background script but it shows "... started debugging this browser" on top of every pages.
hi i have been having a problem with creating a chrome extension the extensions js script dosent run unless i click on the icon and let the extension html stay there if i close the little icons menu it stop the javascript file too
is there a way to let the script run when the tab opens and finish the timeout?
and would it be better to use the chrome.alarm then setTimeout?
here is the manifest
{
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "test",
"description": "",
"version": "1.0",
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "icon.png",
"default_popup": "index.html"
},
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": ["<all_urls>"],
"css": ["style.css"],
"js": ["main.js"]
}
],
"permissions": [
"activeTab",
"storage",
"tabs"
]
}
here is the main.js
check();
function check(){
setTimeout(function(){ alert('hi'); }, 3000);
}
chrome.tabs.onCreated.addListener(function(tab){
alert('hi');
})
the function and chrome.tabs.onCreated only fires when i click the icon and open the popup html
EDIT
My chrome extension calling an api service in the background.js file and i can get the data. But after closing the browser window, i cant get the data from the api service in background.js file. It showing null value. When go to the chrome://extensions/ and reload the extension I can get the data.
When close the browser window, the data fetched is being reset and when open the browser, data not fetching. Data can be fetched from the api only after reloading the extension.
Why happening so. Does any one have an idea about this?
This is my manifest.json file
{
"manifest_version": 2,
"icons": {
"16": "images/icon16.png",
"32": "images/icon32.png",
"48": "images/icon48.png",
"128": "images/icon128.png"
},
"name": "Test",
"short_name": "Test",
"description": "Test",
"version": "3.0.0",
"background": {
"scripts": [
"build/background-bundle.js"
]
},
"browser_action": {
"default_popup": "popup.html"
},
"permissions": [
"tabs",
"cookies",
"storage",
"activeTab",
"http://*/",
"https://*/"
],
"content_scripts": [{
"matches": [
"<all_urls>"
],
"js": [
"build/content-bundle.js"
],
"run_at": "document_end"
}],
"options_ui": {
"page": "options.html",
"chrome_style": true
},
"content_security_policy": "script-src 'self' https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js https://api.algorithmia.com/v1/algo/algo://nlp/SummarizeURL/0.1.1; object-src 'self'"
}
You can't reload the background file based on anything other than reopening the browser or reloading the extension manually. What you should instead do is have a content script tell background.js to run getTaxonomyList again when the user log in happens.
background.js:
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(function(request, sender, sendResponse) {
if (request.userLoggedIn) {
getTaxonomyList().done(function(list) {
sendResponse(list);
});
}
})
I want to be able to click the HTML div button and relocate the current tab.
redirect.js
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) {
chrome.tabs.update(tab.id, {
url: "http://www.roblox.com/"
});
});
popup.html
<html>
<script src="redirect.js"></script>
</html>
manifest.json
{
"name": "z",
"version": "0.1",
"description": "z",
"background": {
"page":"popup.html"
},
"manifest_version": 2,
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": ["http://*/*", "https://*/*"],
"js": ["redirect.js"]
}
],
"permissions": [
"tabs",
"bookmarks",
"<all_urls>",
"unlimitedStorage"
]
}
Those are my current scripts, it doesn't let me use onclick when I add a div button, I need that help mainly.
1: you did not specify the browserAction in the manifest.json. If you want to use chrome.browserAction.onClicked, you have to specify a browser action. add an extension icon.
2: you do not need content script
3: if you only want a single redirect function, you do not need to request bookmarks and all urls and storage permissions.
so here is your manifest.json should be :
{
"name": "z",
"version": "0.1",
"description": "z",
"background": {
"page":"popup.html"
},
"manifest_version": 2,
"permissions": [
"tabs"
],
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": {
"19": "icon.png" //you have to put an image icon.png in to the folder.
},
"default_title": "Redirect" //optional
}
}
Then it will works.
plus, do not name your background file as "popup.html", popup usually used as a popup window.
you can also download the extension here, only this script will redirect to google after click. you can modify it yourself.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-gxNl6LTj5jdkZPTm9qQXB4S1U/view?usp=sharing
I would like my Chrome Extension to on show up on google and amazon. My manifest.json looks like this:
{
"background": {"scripts": ["background.js"]},
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": ["*://*.google.com/*", "http://www.amazon.com/*", "*://*.amazon.com/*"],
"js": ["background.js"]
}
],
"name": "Denver Public Library Lookup",
"description": "Does Stuff",
"homepage_url": "http://www.artifacting.com",
"icons": {
"16": "icon-16.png",
"48": "icon-48.png",
"128": "icon-128.png" },
"permissions": [
"tabs",
"http://*/*",
"https://*/*"
],
"version": "1.0",
"manifest_version": 2
}
But it doesn't show up on either google or amazon and I can't figure out why.
Here is my background.js
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) {
chrome.tabs.executeScript(tab.id, {file: "bookmarklet.js"})
});
And here is the bookmarlet.js
setTimeout('x99.focus()', 300);
var re = /([\/-]|at[at]n=)/i;
if (re.test(location.href) == true) {
var isbn = RegExp.$2;
var x99 = window.open('http://searchsite/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&type=Keyword&term=' + atatn, 'Library', 'scrollbars=1,resizable=1,top=0,left=0,location=1,width=800,height=600');
x99.focus();
}
Any ideas? Thanks for your help.
Many mistakes in the code.
You don't need content script here, all operations could be executed
within background page content
It it hard to make background page
code works within content script, this is definitely not a your case.
So using the same background.js as both background and content script
does not work in your case at least
Manifest does not declare browser
action.
And so on
I strongly suggest to start with Google extension documentation. You will save a lot of your time.
How I think files might look like
manifest.json
{
"background": {"scripts": ["background.js"]},
"name": "Denver Public Library Lookup",
"description": "Does Stuff",
"homepage_url": "http://www.artifacting.com",
"icons": {
"16": "icon-16.png",
"48": "icon-48.png",
"128": "icon-128.png" },
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": {
"19": "images/icon-19.png",
"38": "images/icon-38.png"
},
"default_title": "Do Staff" // optional; shown in tooltip
},
"permissions": [
"tabs",
"http://*/*",
"https://*/*"
],
"version": "1.0",
"manifest_version": 2
}
background.js
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) {
// You need more sothisticated regexp here which checks for amazon and google domains
var re = /([\/-]|at[at]n=)/i;
if (re.test(tab.url)) {
var isbn = RegExp.$2;
var url = "http://searchsite/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&type=Keyword&term=" + isbn;
chrome.windows.create({
url : url,
left: 0,
top: 0,
width: 800,
height: 600,
focused: true,
type: "popup"
});
}
});
bookmarlet.js is not needed