How can I perform a post through the chrome extention, lets say I want to send the current tab page title to a webpage
You can do POST XHRs from chrome extensions to any URL, as long as you have host permissions defined in your manifest. See these docs.
In a chrome extension the best way to try and do what i think you want is via a content script see documentation a word of warning however pinging your server with a POST request every time someone with your extension installed opens a web page is going to be extremely heavy going on your servers especially if you have a lot of installs. A possible solution is to use the content script to keep tally of the sites a user visits and save this data in a HTML5 database (wich chrome supports) then using background.html sending the data at given intervals in bulk with an AJAX request, this will significantly cut down the number of times your server is pinged.
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I am looking for a way to get complete data from the network of my own website with nodejs, exactly like in the network tab of the chrome devtool.
But, surprinsingly, I cannot find any information about it.
What I need is actually to get data from requests made by an iframe located on my webpage. But the tricky thing is that these specific requests don`t pass by my server. Is there a way to access these requests as I would in the network tab of chrome?
The only way that I found is to create a chrome plugin, it takes some effort but then I could catch any request.
In a system I have to maintain (didn't build it, just inherited it) we have a Foursquare implementation that hasn't been used in quite a while. Trying to revive it failed, because our page is now loaded via HTTPS, which it didn't used to be.
We are using the "Save to Foursquare" button as well as the API request to retrieve the number of Check-ins. I already switched all the JS includes and intent links from http to https and at least now it shows the number and the button correctly.
However, I can't click the button and checking the browser's console I found that it added a script tag to the head of this page which tries to access http://platform.foursquare.com/js/modules/widgets.asyncbundle.js. The browser obviously blocks this, because it's not using HTTPS.
The file we are explicitly loading is https://platform.foursquare.com/js/widgets.js. It seems to me like this script is not reacting correctly to HTTP vs. HTTPS. There is probably a very simple solution to this, so what am I missing?
I don't know if you've tried it yet but the foursquare website says this on the matter:
Change the source of the JavaScript file to https://platform-s.foursquare.com/js/widgets.js
Add {"secure":true} to the global configuration block (window.___fourSq)`
The same link (see below) has all the different ways to call the Save To Foursquare function using its .saveTo() function.
https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/widgets
I hope this information and links helps! Cheers.
I am trying to scrape a oracle adf faces rich client webpage but I am not getting the best of luck, I login automatically using node.js request module but after that I can't get to any other page with request. I get stuck on redirects, the loop script or simply don't get information I expect to.
I am using Wireshark to view every page and the way it handles, I recreate the page to match headers and even size but everytime the framework denies me access.
Before you ask, it's legal and I am not breaking any terms of service. Just trying to make a web api to speed up a process. I have used phantomjs with casperjs but get stuck on ajax calls that don't show on page and php curl but it's much easier with java.
Any suggestions are really really appreciated.
My bad on this one, wireshark was displaying fields as truncated, if you want to see the full field you need to right click the packet and click follow TCP stream, rich clients have very long posts generated by the framework behind the rich client and it appears I was missing about half of them when I did the calls.
I know there's a way for extensions and pages to communicate locally, but I need to send a message from an outside URL, have my Chrome Extension listen for it.
I have tried easyXDM in the background page, but it seems to stop listening after awhile, as if Google "turns off" the Javascript in the background page after awhile.
I think you may try some walk around and build a site with some specific data structure, and then implement a content script which will look for this specific that specific data structure, and when i finds one it can fetch the data you want to be passed to your extension.
Yes, you need a content script that communicates with the page using DOM Events.. Instructions on how to do that are here:
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/content_scripts.html#host-page-communication
I'm trying to automate some datascraping from a website. However, because the user has to go through a login screen a wget cronjob won't work, and because I need to make an HTTPS request, a simple Perl script won't work either. I've tried looking at the "DejaClick" addon for Firefox to simply replay a series of browser events (logging into the website, navigating to where the interesting data is, downloading the page, etc.), but the addon's developers for some reason didn't include saving pages as a feature.
Is there any quick way of accomplishing what I'm trying to do here?
A while back I used mechanize wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize and found it very helpful. It supports urllib2 so it should also work with HTTPS requests as I read now. So my comment above could hopefully prove wrong.
You can record your action with IRobotSoft web scraper. See demo here: http://irobotsoft.com/help/
Then use saveFile(filename, TargetPage) function to save the target page.