I have a Chrome extension that uploads to the Chrome store just fine. My current manifest file is posted below. It is saved in ANSI format as suggested in previous posts with this issue. This is the third variant and they all produce the same error message when I try to install: "Invalid manifest". No real information. I have tried waiting 24 hours for it to propagate properly as suggested in previous posts, but to no effect.
Has anyone encountered this issue before?
The extension is here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bamboo-dialog-fixer/oelecpkhobhmbbdmehaoonkbkdodhdio?hl=en-US
{
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "Bamboo dialog fixer",
"version": "1.3",
"description": "This extension makes bamboo popup dialogs such a the performance dialogs fit the width of the screen.",
"icons": {"128": "BambooHR_FullSize.png"},
"content_scripts":
{
"css": "styles.css",
"matches": "https://*.bamboohr.co.uk/*"
}
}
Thanks wOxxOm. I must have screwed up, even though I thought I had it right on a previous occasion. I rewrote the file as below and uploaded and it works now.
{
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "Bamboo dialog fixer",
"version": "1.4",
"description": "This extension makes bamboo popup dialogs such a the performance dialogs fit the width of the screen.",
"icons": {"128": "BambooHR_FullSize.png"},
"content_scripts": [
{
"css": ["styles.css"],
"matches": ["https://*.bamboohr.co.uk/*"]
}
]
}
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I have a very simple chrome extension which basically add some text to specific pages, is working fine, but only on first loading and when i refresh the page.
The page have originally some real time filtering which update the results and the url, but because don't refresh the page, my script doesn't work.
I try to fix it using the background feature but maybe there are some simple thing i can do to force execute the script when the is some change on the page.
This is the current content of the manifest.json
{
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "Extension name",
"version": "0.1.0",
"description": "Extension description",
"content_scripts": [
{
"js": ["contentList.js"],
"matches": ["https://www.test.com/*"]
}
]
}
I'm trying to write a Chrome extension where, when clicked, it will drop down Google. For now, it only loads a local .html file. Here is the code I currently have:
{
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "theName",
"description": "TheDesc",
"version": "1.0",
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "icon.png",
"default_popup": "http://www.google.com",
"default_title": "Tooltip"
},
"permissions": [
"activeTab",
"https://ajax.googleapis.com/"
]
}
I have 4 files in my folder: icon.png, manifest.json, popup.html, & popup.js. I am using the "Getting Started" tutorial from https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted as a template, as I am extremely new to all of this (vb6 programmer for years).
Edit:
I finally got it to open a webpage in the little popup. Now, I need to grab the Title of the current tab's URL, remove the spaces from it, trim it down to 30 characters max, assign it to a string, then navigate to www.website.com/STRING. What I'm thinking is the extension needs to create a new popup.html each time, but that could be taxing on the server. Perhaps this can be done straight from the extension? I don't have a clue. Just guessing at this point.
I developped a Google Docs add-on with translations, so, instead of using the traditional online deployment process, I need to upload a ZIP file with a json manifest (example below) and files for each locales.
{
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "__MSG_application_title__",
"short_name": "__MSG_application_title__",
"description": "__MSG_application_description__",
"container": ["GOOGLE_DOCUMENT"],
"default_locale": "en",
"icons": {
"16": "icon.png",
"128": "icon.png"
},
"container_info": {
"container_version": "my_container_version",
"post_install_tip": "my_tip",
"container_id": "my_container_id"
},
"version": "my_version"
}
When uploading such ZIP file, I get the following error message:
An error occurred: Failed to process your item. Please specify
background subsection of app section in the manifest. Legacy packaged
apps cannot be uploaded to the Chrome Web Store any more. More
information can be found at
http://blog.chromium.org/2014/06/migrate-your-legacy-packaged-apps-to.html
I tried to add background subsection from different ways, but none of them was working. Does anyone know how to change the manifest to make it valid please ?
Thanks
Sincerest apologies, I was misunderstanding the issue entirely. Try and see if:
"app":{
"background":{
"scripts":["background.js"]
}
},
Works when added to your code.
similarly, I had to change the app section of my manifest to the following to get it to work when facing this issue:
"app": {
"background": {
"persistent": false
}
}
I'm having a problem controlling what pages my content scripts are injected into. The chrome extension developer guide specifies that I can use an "exclude_matches" directive in my manifest.json to exclude certain pages from injection.
However, this doesn't seem to have any effect. My content script still executes on pages that I have specified as ignored.
I have put the steps to reproduce in a Gist. The code is also available on Github.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
manifest.json
{
"name": "Testing Extension",
"version": "1.0",
"description": "Test the chrome extensions exclude_matches.",
"content_scripts": [{
"matches": ["http://*/*", "https://*/*"],
"exclude_matches": ["http://news.ycombinator.com/"],
"js": ["content.js"]
}]
}
content.js
console.log("hello from the content script");
This is Bug #100106. exclude_matches do not function properly.
To solve the problem, use exclude_globs instead of exclude_matches.
Also, your exclude_matches rule does only match http://news.ycombinator.com/.
Suffice the pattern with an asterisk to match the whole site: http://news.ycombinator.com/*.
See also: Match patterns.
I made an extension for google chrome but I don't like what the market put as a warning :(
This extension may have access to:
Your data on every website
Your history data
the manifest:
{
"name": "extension name",
"description": "description cool super description.",
"version": "1.0",
"permissions": [ "tabs", "http://*/*", "https://*/*" ],
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "icon.png",
"popup": "popup.html"
}
}
Is there any way to explain to google that I don't access any of this? is just an app to reveal asterisk :(
If you mean "browser history" part then it's a bug on the webstore website which someone should report. This contradicts their own docs where it says that tab permission should raise "Your tabs and browsing activity" warning. (As a reference this bug report could be used)
"Your data on all websites" is correct one. Their warnings show not what you do, but what you can potentially do.