I'm trying to intercept youtube requests response from a devtool panel and send it to the content or background script of a Chrome extension. but I can't get it to work.
There is loads of exemple online but most of them use Manifest V2 and I really want to make it work on V3.
I don't know which method to use for sending messages to the content or background script from the panel.js, nor do I know how to listen for incoming messages from the panel in those scripts.
And I don't know if I need to add more permissions in my manifest for this to work :
{
"manifest_version": 3,
"name": "Already Seen",
"version": "1",
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": ["<all_urls>"],
"js": ["jquery-3.6.0.min.js", "content.js"],
"css": ["avatar.css"]
}
],
"devtools_page" : "devtools.html",
"action": {
"default_icon": "icon.png"
},
"background": {
"service_worker": "background.js"
},
"permissions": ["identity", "storage", "tabs", "webRequest"],
"host_permissions": ["https://www.youtube.com/", "https://youtube.com/"],
"externally_connectable": {
"matches": ["https://youtube.com/*"]
},
"oauth2": {
"client_id": "***************",
"scopes": [
"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email",
"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile"
]
}
}
devtools.html
<script src="devtools.js"></script>
devtools.js
chrome.devtools.panels.create("Already Seen", "icon.png", 'panel.html');
panel.html
<html>
<body>
<script src="panel.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
panel.js
chrome.devtools.network.onRequestFinished.addListener((request) => {
request.getContent((body) => {
if (!request.request || !request.request.url) return;
// I NEED TO SEND THE MESSAGE HERE TO BACKGROUND.JS OR CONTENT.JS
});
});
I found another way of doing this by using the chrome.debbuger in the background script but it shows "... started debugging this browser" on top of every pages.