Opening a recently Downloaded Files

[wayfare]

As you all know, recently downloaded files are placed on the bottom left corner of the browser.

I would like a keybinding that can open those files(that is how much I rely on Vimium now haha).

I am going to give it a shot but I would really appreciate some help or ideas. I am still new to coffeescript

syntax and contributing to opensource projects. :)

Thanks! 

[Phil Crosby]

Hey wayfare, that would be a great feature. I suspect that Chrome does not give you programmatic access to downloaded files, so do investigate whether it's possible before diving in too deeply. See the Chrome extension docs here.

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/api_index.html

[Jay Chae]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the link! I was just thinking how I can possibly implement the functionality.

The raw solution I came up was,

1. Open a tab with path  chrome://downloads/  , which lists all the recent downloaded files.

2. We can send a message using chrome.tabs.sendMessage method. The script

will simulate clicking the link to the first downloaded file on the page.

3. Once it's clicked, we can close the tab with chrome://downloads/   .

That was just my raw thinking. Please give me any feedback you have!

-- 

Jay Chae

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[Phil Crosby]

Hey Jay, you can't simulate clicks on tabs that Vimium is not running on, and Vimium can't run on chrome:// tabs due to security restrictions.