I didn't see anything in the documentation so I don’t think this is possible, but I want to confirm.
Is there any way to have a background process run without there being a Banno Card displayed?
I’m currently creating a way to notify the user that they aren’t enrolled in e-statements. However, I would need there to always be a Banno card (plugin) displayed so that the program uses the API and generates a popup when the user logs in.
If possible I would like to be able to "hide" the plugin so that the process is ran in the background.
Is this possible?
No, it is not possible to run a background process within the Banno UI as you have described.
It’s possible to run processes outside of Banno itself and still use Banno’s APIs (see answer to Consumer API - Using Authentication Framework via a "background" service), but that is different from what you are looking to do.
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I've written a simple web app to factory-reset bluetooth devices that were accidentally turned on during shipping. The app scans for a class of bluetooth devices (those made by the company I work for), renders a list of devices found, and, when I click a button next to a device in the list, sends a reset message to the device.
This is a very manual process and I'd like to automate it. The problem is the Chrome dialog that asks for permissions to pair with a device. I am trying automate the app with Puppeteer, but I can't find a way to either (a) programmatically grant permissions to pair with a device or (b) to select the device in the dialog and click the "pair" button via Puppeteer. Anyone know if what I'm trying to do is possible, or if there's a better way to achieve the goal? Thanks!
This is not possible in Chrome. (I work on chrome.) The automation that does exist for Chrome's testing is layered such that actual Bluetooth connections aren't made.
Eventually we would like to enable this workflow via Enterprise configuration controls. But that is not started yet and there is no date commitment.
One alternative is to use node.js, though you lose the easy interface. You might build the reset backend in a node server and have it serve a web page interface.
I've been driving myself mad trying to get curl, wget, the python request module, and others, to simply get me logged in to a website and pull page text there. I can certainly request HTML from the site, but only as an anonymous user. I've spent a few hours with tricks like chrome's "copy cURL" feature, but the website in question is smart enough to defend against login playbacks.
All I want is a way, from the command-line, to do something like:
chrome.exe --output_to_file page.html https://www.endpoint.com/auth_access_only.html
Essentially, I'm looking for chrome to do for me what cURL does, but I want the command-line invocation to be executed as me. I can see how this might open a potential security issue, but I don't mind at all if I have to do something magical to authorize my script. I'm not looking to do anything evil - I just want to be able to write scripts that are as "me" as I am.
I guess that, if it's truly unavoidable, I could suck it up and dust off Internet Explorer. I'd really rather not do that. I'd feel so dirty.
This is possible, but it's not as simple as you're thinking.
You can use the Chrome Debugging Protocol to remote-control Chrome.
You will need to write some code to make this work - I have done similar tasks using the chrome-remote-interface library for Node.js.
Make sure you understand what a browser profile is and where your profile folder lives.
If Chrome is already running using your browser profile: make sure it was launched with --remote-debugging-port=9002 or similar.
If Chrome is not already running using your browser profile: launch it with --user-data-dir="C:\path\to\your\profile" --remote-debugging-port=9002 or similar.
The "running or not" part is a bit tricky - you cannot launch more than one Chrome instance with the same browser profile, but you need to use this user profile because your login data is stored there. It may actually be easiest to create a separate browser profile that is just used for this automated task, and log in to the site there too.
Then, at a high level, your Node.js code will need to connect to Chrome, load the page, wait for the response, and save it to a file. Have a look at the example code for the chrome-remote-interface library - you can definitely piece together what you need from there.
Another option which uses the same underlying technology is to use puppeteer which is another tool to automate Chrome. It is designed to start from a fresh profile every time. If you do this, you'll need to script more interactions:
Visit the site's login page
Type the login credentials into the form and click the login button
Visit the site's authenticated page and save it to a file.
The benefit of this approach is that the result should be more reliable, preventing issues like expired login sessions.
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...)
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!
I am looking to extend an existing JavaScript/CoffeeScript application using the realtime API. What I want to do is synchronize a map used by the Model of my application, part of an MVC framework spinejs. This would require that all the operations of the API will be done on the Model of my application (which is pure client-side), and have no direct interaction with the View.
All the open-source examples of realtime-api I have found had the JS code within the HTML being displayed, or much of the operations for authorization/loading etc (quickstart,realtime-cube,realtime-playground).
Is it possible to use realtime-api, without having direct
interaction with the displayed content?
Furthermore, if any examples are available it would be greatly appreciated.
Once the auth is done, all the operations can be performed, without any user operation being necessary (i.e. they don't have to be triggered by a user event).
I can show you our RT code here, although it's non-trivial, the listeners are listening to our own model, which cause RT functions to be invoked.
In terms of the auth, it works fine, except if you want to support multiple accounts. For single accounts you can use the immediate mode to enable signing in without causing a popup.
If there are multiple accounts logged in, you will need a user event to start the auth without having a popup, immediate mode messes up multiple account handling. Note there is a bug in the multiple account selection screen anyway, which causes a poor user experience.
I have create an box.net application according to the documentation.
Now, I would like to share the application with my colleges. Does anyone knows, how I can make it? IMPORTANT, I dont want to deploy it in public.
Thanks in advance
It really depends on what kind of Application you've created. There are fundamentally 2 types of apps in the Box "App Marketplace"
1) Apps that run on a server at a URL you own. Box sends calls to you, either for file-actions (think right-click, open-with kinda stuff), or for webhooks.
2) Apps that are built for a specific device (like an iPhone or Android). They show up in our marketplace, but the download links take users to the itunes or an android store to download the app. These apps call into Box via APIs (see https://developers.box.com/docs)
If you've built a #1, then you need to figure out where you want to host the software you wrote. Box makes it easy to host it on Heroku, or CloudFoundry, or Parse, so you can get going quickly, without having to provision your own hardware, etc.
So, it really depends on what kind of application you've built.