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Spec-ify / specify

Specify: a lightweight and fast tool to gather information about a Windows computer, designed for support purposes
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Include URL or ID pointing to the extension on the web store for extension data gathering #30

Open zleyyij opened 1 year ago

zleyyij commented 1 year ago

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XavierNCline commented 11 months ago

This is a note to myself so I have this information after I'm done rewriting the code for browser extensions. Chrome extension IDs are the name of the folder they're found in under the profiles. A link can be obtained by appending this ID to the end of this link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/

sealsrock12 commented 11 months ago

You would probably want to check if the extension is actually on the webstore instead of just blindly adding it to the json

XavierNCline commented 11 months ago

I don't really know if there's a good way to do this efficiently on data collection. Do you have an example of such an extension I could base off of?

XavierNCline commented 11 months ago

After some discussion it was decided the play on this is basically going to be passing the extension ID from Specify into Specified and having it hyperlinked to the web store Specified side. Worst case scenario a non-existent ID on the webstore will just 404