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Tottish
Tottish

Reputation: 71

Access all new Chrome Notifications programmatically

I have no previous experience with programming Google Chrome plugins which is why I am starting here to see if what I want to accomplish is possible/reasonable. I do however have a pretty broad experience in programming in general.

What I want: I want some kind of "trigger" to go off when a new Chrome Notification (you know these little pop ups above the system tray) is popping up. I want to execute some script/code depending on what information the notification contains so that I for example could have an alarm go off if I receive an email from a certain user with a certain key word in the subject and get a pop up from my Gmail Notifier extension. This is however just an example and I have a bunch of ideas for different notifications from different extensions and websites so don't get caught up on that particular example.

When I look at the Chrome Notification API I see that there is a getAll method that supposedly is getting all the "notifications in the system" but I do not find any Event for new notifications. I suppose a possibility would be to poll with getAll a couple of times per second (it needs to be really fast for some implementations I have in mind) but it feels very tacky.

Is there any way to easily access new Notifications programmatically in Chrome? (I'm open to all solutions, programming languages and such...)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1152

Answers (1)

Tottish
Tottish

Reputation: 71

Well, I searched long and hard and got involved with the Chromium dev group and asked around there. As far as I could figure out there was no reasonable way of accessing all Notifications programatically.

So what I ended up doing was just download the source-code of Chromium and build my own custom version of chromium adding a very crude API. Worked like a charm and not as complicated as one might think.

Cheers!

Upvotes: 3

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