Is opening an unfocused pinned tab to get updated cookies from a website allowed?

[Prakhar Tiwari]

Hello there, 

In my chrome extension, I need to get updated cookies from a website twice a day for some features to work. But unfortunately those cookies come in existence/update only when the user opens that website's page. Now if the user never opens the site, I won't be able to get the cookie. So to tackle that problem, I am implementing a solution to a open an unfocused pinned tab to have minial interruption on the user side and wait check for the cookie to be received and then immediately close the tab. This will happen twice a day.

Now, is any of this unethical or against the policies of Webstore? I need to make sure before moving ahead so that my extension don't get into trouble.

Regards

[Prakhar Tiwari]

Also, I am having issues with another option I wanted to try.

Is it possible to open a hidden window? Like a minimized "normal" chrome window with that website's URL, or an unfocused "popup" type window?

Because after a lot of tries, the window opens on the top every time and interrupts the user.

[Patrick Kettner]

We can't approve anything other than final code, but that behavior sounds acceptable based on what you have described. That being said, I would suggest using an offscreenDocument instead.

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[Prakhar Tiwari]

Does an offscreen document give us the cookie for that website? Because I tried it and failed to get a cookie, if you could share any examples or resources that would be very helpful.

I am unsure how to load up the website and get the cookie with the offscreen doc. 

[Patrick Kettner]

An offscreen document is just what it says on the tin - a document that is offscreen. If the user is logged in, and cookies are set, you would get them the same way you would get them on the web.