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electron-extensions
Advanced tools
electron-extensions
will allow you to use Chrome extensions APIs with Electron.
$ npm install electron-extensions
The library is really easy-to-use. All you have to do is to put the following code in your main process:
import { ExtensibleSession } from 'electron-extensions/main';
import { app } from 'electron';
const extensions = new ExtensibleSession();
(async () => {
await app.whenReady();
extensions.loadExtension('C:/.../abcdefghijklmnoprstuwxyz'); // Path to the extension to load
})();
ExtensibleSession
main
new ExtensibleSession(options: IOptions)
options
object
partition
string - By default null
. It's used for injecting preloads to
load content_scripts
in all webContents within a given Electron session
. Must be called in app
ready
event.preloadPath
string - Path to content preload script. The option can be useful for bundlers like webpack
if you're using CopyWebpackPlugin
.blacklist
string[] - List of URLs or glob patterns preventing from injecting content_scripts
to. For example [wexond://*/*]
.It's only for the main process. It's used to load extensions and handle their events.
loadExtension(path: string)
Loads an extension from a given path.
addWindow(window: Electron.BrowserWindow)
Adds a BrowserWindow to send and observe UI related events such as
chrome.browserAction.onClicked
blacklist
string[]List of URLs or glob patterns preventing from injecting content_scripts
to. For example [wexond://*]
.
set-badge-text
Emitted when chrome.browserAction.setBadgeText
has been called in an extension.
Returns:
extensionId
stringdetails
chrome.browserAction.BadgeTextDetailscreate-tab
Emitted when chrome.tabs.create
has been called in an extension.
import { extensionsRenderer } from 'electron-extensions';
extensionsRenderer.on('create-tab', (details, callback) => {
const tab = createTab(details); // Some create tab method...
callback(tab.id);
});
Returns:
details
chrome.tabs.CreatePropertiescallback
(tabId: number) => void - Must be called with the created tab id as an argument. Also, the tabId
must be the same as any attached webContents
idextensionsRenderer
renderer
import { extensionsRenderer } from 'electron-extensions/renderer';
browserAction.onClicked(extensionId: string, tabId: number)
Emits chrome.browserAction.onClicked
event in a given extension.
FAQs
Implementation of Chrome extension APIs for Electron
The npm package electron-extensions receives a total of 33 weekly downloads. As such, electron-extensions popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that electron-extensions demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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