I'm starting the development of chrome extensions, i have read few tutorials but i still have few questions, like;
1) How to get the text of the page Like i want to in skype or google talk extesnion the number on any webpage are converted to PHONE LINK how can i do this?
2) How to perform authentication using the plugin like the google plus (gmail) checker, I want to do this for another website not gmail, i want to do this for me custom website.
Thanks
1) There are a number of ways to ways to find text on pages. Here is an example with jQuery.
2) Google has a tutorial for using OAuth from an extension. This should work with most OAuth providers. You can also use cookies or Basic Auth if you want something simpler.
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I am trying to create an add-in for Gmail using the app script. I want to use large text on top of the add-in.
But as the documentation says Gmail Add-in only supports CardService as of now, can't render an HTML there. After my research, I didn't find any option through CardService to achieve the same.
But I saw another Google Add-in doing the same I wanted to achieve.
Google Keep
I want something like No notes yet text
Answer:
The TextParagraph class supports some basic HTML formatting, but this functionality does not support font size.
Feature Request:
There is however a pre-existing feature request on Google's Issue Tracker requesting this exact functionality. You can see this at the following link:
Request for API or function to set font sizes in text paragraphs.
I urge you to hit the star on this feature request report, as Google prioritises feature requests based on popularity.
I've been looking into adding an "extension" for gmail, this is for an application at work, basically we want to somehow integrate some options (buttons), somewhere contextual to the email that's being viewed currently.
Our users, will then be able to install extension, and the extension will establish the authorisation aspect (not sure how this is done yet) with our application.
I've so far looked into two options, not sure if I'm on the right track:
Chrome extension, that then uses gmail.js (some third party library on github), and use some jquery to search the DOM to insert a button into the reply/delete toolbar.
I understand that this would be more straight forward but would have issues with it breaking if page layout changes, or class names changes. And would also require uses to be using chrome (which is something we are fine about)
Create a gmail contextual gadget add-on, that sits at the bottom of the email, although, I'm not sure if this contextual gadget will appear at the end of the main thread of an email or inside each individual email and will require expanding?
Also correct me if I'm wrong, but are gmail contextual gadgets limited to users with Google Apps subscription in their company? I.e. we have to subscribe to google apps in our domain and deploy it on the google apps marketplace, and similarly also have the users who want to install this gadget to also be using google apps?
Thank for everyones help in advance.
Is it possible to have a fallback href?
I put an URL Scheme in a website, code below:
Tweet!
This sends out a Tweet with the app Tweetbot containing "test". If people haven't installed Tweetbot, nothing will happen clicking the link. Is there a way to do a fallback to the web version of twitter and/or different apps?
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I remember seeing similar questions regarding the tel:// URL scheme a while ago. Unfortunately, I don't think this is possible directly from a webpage, but check out this question as it may offer some useful hacks (such as using a setTimeout for if the scheme isn't present - I can't confirm that they work). My personal favorite answer there is from mrahman, who uses the Date().getTime() method so that users who do have the App won't get the message / be redirected.
I guess if your users are going to be using the functionality frequently then you could save their choice of whether to use the app or the web version.
I want to use google drive to store the files, but allow the users of my website to be able to edit them transparently, so that they don't have to go to google drive's website.
Is this possible with the current API? Thus far I have only seen how to create an app for them to install in google drive, or doing something like DrEdit (https://developers.google.com/drive/examples/), which parses the files to JSON and uses the ACE editor, which is definitely not what I want.
EDIT:
I believe it is not possible to do this with Google Drive, I've decided to go with Zoho Docs instead.
Yes it's possible. The biggest consideration is how much formatting you want to support. Eg. if it's plain text, it's very simple. If you want to support character or layout formatting, it becomes more complex.
I don't believe its possible to embed the editor (or even embed a preview!) using an iframe, because if you look at how the google docs page loads, it first redirects you to the login page, and that automatically logs you in if you are already logged in, and redirects you back to the docs editor.
This means that the iframe would have to at least pass through the login page, even if the user doesn't need to enter anything. However, google's login page has the x-frame-option header set to SAMEORIGIN (or deny?), and thus, the browser refuses to display it, and thus you can't actually get logged in!
The only way I've found to enable just preview embedding (not editing), is to publish the document first (via the File->publish to web menu item).
I want to build a chrome extension like rapportive.com. I'm new to Chrome extensions and Gmail Content Script. Can any one please suggest how to go about this?
Currently I'm reading Google's Gadget docs.
Here are some notes to get you started. There are more robust ways to build this, but this is the "hello world" of the functionality you are talking about:
You will need to define a content script that you add to the context of gmail. This part is pretty easy and can work with any of the content script examples available in the Google's documentation. You should read and learn about what it means to be a content script.
The content script will need to know where to look inside gmail for an email address. This address will be used to grab the social media information on the user. You message this email address from the content script to the extension's background page.
The background page will need to have social media integration that the user pre-configured. Basically, you need to plug the background page into Facebook's/Twitter's/LinkedIn's APIs and use their APIs to collect information about the email address.
The background page will then message the content script you added to gmail with the social media details for the email address
The content script then modifies gmail's user interface to contain your social media details.
The greatest long-term challenge you will face is that gmail's layout will change unexpectedly and break email discovery or the modified UI. Both issues either require some cleverness to solve, or will require you to stay up at night wondering whether Google will suddenly break your extension.
Good luck!
I don't know what google gadget is and link you provided gives 404 but I don't think you even need this.
What you need is a content script that is injected into gmail page where it adds a panel. So, start with reading about how to create a Chrome extension that is using content scripts.
There is a new SDK for modifying the DOM elements in gmail: https://www.inboxsdk.com/docs/
They have a useful API for adding buttons and other elements.