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Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 3706

How can I send a message from Google Chrome extension to desktop application?

I have a Windows desktop application which must work in collaboration with my Chrome extension.

Can I send a message to my desktop app somehow from Google Chrome extension?

Which IPC objects can I use?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 9481

Answers (3)

Mike Grace
Mike Grace

Reputation: 16924

I see three options:

  1. You could use the internet. You can have a remote service that both the chrome extension and your desktop app talk to, to communicate.
  2. You could have your desktop app have a simple server built into it so that the chrome extension can make local http requests to it to communicate with it.
  3. Use the Google NPAPI plugin functionality to have full access to the computer. Now deprecated

Upvotes: 11

yurenchen
yurenchen

Reputation: 2483

chrome extension has a native massage api to communicate to native process,

see here:

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/nativeMessaging

Upvotes: 4

Helge Klein
Helge Klein

Reputation: 9085

These days you would use Chrome's native messaging API to send the message from your extension to a native messaging host. The latter can be a "real" executable that then passes the message on to your desktop application.

Documentation: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/messaging#native-messaging-host

Upvotes: 10

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