Expose an API in my extension

[John]

Hello,

I want to build an extension that is able expose an API that can be queried ideally via HTTP, is that possible?

I got as far as being able to do requests to chrome-extension://extensionString/api.html?[params here]

However, I can only query it through chromium, an external process can not request that path and read the response. Obviously, that is not the right approach.

I could not find information about it by reading the chrome extension documentation, could someone point me out a reference?

Many Thanks,

[Antony Sargent]

You can't do this directly in an extension, but could in an app using the tcp sockets API: https://developer.chrome.com/apps/sockets_tcp

A workaround for doing it in an extension would be to write a proxy chrome app (or native app) that uses cross-extension messaging (or native messaging) to forward the communication to and from your extension. 

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[John]

Thanks Antony for your reply.

Looks like the cleanest approach is to migrate the extension to an app, will do that.

Regards.

El miércoles, 22 de abril de 2015, 1:00:48 (UTC+1), Antony Sargent escribió:

You can't do this directly in an extension, but could in an app using the tcp sockets API: https://developer.chrome.com/apps/sockets_tcp

A workaround for doing it in an extension would be to write a proxy chrome app (or native app) that uses cross-extension messaging (or native messaging) to forward the communication to and from your extension. 

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:11 AM, John <zati...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I want to build an extension that is able expose an API that can be queried ideally via HTTP, is that possible?

I got as far as being able to do requests to chrome-extension://extensionString/api.html?[params here]

However, I can only query it through chromium, an external process can not request that path and read the response. Obviously, that is not the right approach.

I could not find information about it by reading the chrome extension documentation, could someone point me out a reference?

Many Thanks,

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