I'm working on converting <tweety> to a chrome ext...
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Achille Lacoin
05/31/2025, 2:12 PMI'm working on converting tweety to a chrome extension (as it is much more secure), and it opens some cool new usecases.
Ex: querying the chrome extension api from the shell !
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Scott
05/31/2025, 5:42 PMOoh! I've been trying and failing to get a chrome extension going for a while...I could see something like this being really useful as kind of like a REPL for in-development plugins.
I've found it really tough to get into a flow where every minor change you need to re-package and then re-import the plugin, just to find you called the wrong method didn't request permissions for a certain thing...
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Achille Lacoin
05/31/2025, 5:45 PMYeah definitely!
Achille Lacoin
05/31/2025, 6:59 PMI can also see it becoming an alternative for userscripts.
I added history search to the mix:
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Scott
05/31/2025, 7:10 PMI’m not sure I know exactly what you mean by user scripts?
Scott
05/31/2025, 7:10 PMBut also the history search is very cool
Scott
05/31/2025, 7:11 PMHave you also tried interacting with chrome’s built in LLM?
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Achille Lacoin
05/31/2025, 7:11 PMI mean stuffs like https://violentmonkey.github.io/
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Scott
05/31/2025, 7:16 PMahh i see
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Konrad Hinsen
06/01/2025, 8:50 AMDoes "chrome extension" mean that it doesn't work with Firefox any more?
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Achille Lacoin
06/01/2025, 8:51 AMIt will also support firefox, I just started with chrome
Achille Lacoin
06/01/2025, 1:00 PMI'm experimention with adding a way to trigger scripts from chrome context menus !
Achille Lacoin
06/01/2025, 1:20 PMAnother interesting api:
chrome.notifications