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facebookgoogle-chrome-extension
user1554442
user1554442

Reputation: 45

Chrome Extension : content script on facebook

I am creating a chrome extension for facebook. I need to execute the same content script on every page. It works well during the first load but it doesn't work when I go to a facebook page thanks to a link (as the profile name). I read this was because not the entire page was loaded except the first time. So the script is not executed again. However I have no idea how to solve this problem.

Here is my manifest.json : 

{
    "name" : "name",
    "version" : "1.0",
    "manifest_version":1,
    "description" : " description ",
    "content_scripts" : [
            {
              "matches" : ["http://www.facebook.com/*"],
              "js" : ["test.js"]
            }   
    ] ,
    "all_frames":"true"  
}

I hope someone will have the answer because I really need the script (test.js, which doesn't change the html or the css) to be executed on every page every time!

Thanks for your future answers.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2411

Answers (1)

Max Scheiber
Max Scheiber

Reputation: 173

I personally solved this by using Chrome's webRequest API. You'll want to add a listener that tracks AJAX-generated HTTP calls. Here's essentially the code I used:

chrome.webRequest.onCompleted.addListener(function(details) {
    var url = document.createElement('a');
    url.href = details.url;
    if (url.search && url.search.indexOf('ajaxpipe=1') !== -1) {
        console.log('New page via AJAX.');
        chrome.tabs.executeScript({'file' : 'test.js'});
    }
}, {urls : ["*://*.facebook.com/*"]});

Upvotes: 4

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