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ispras / web-scraper-chrome-extension

Web data extraction tool implemented as chrome extension
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Working out of the box in latest Chrome 86.0 #74

Closed shailensobhee closed 3 years ago

shailensobhee commented 3 years ago

Not sure if this project is still being maintained. I just tried to install this extension in the latest Chrome version 86.0.x and there are so many bugs right away:

I get a series of " Uncaught SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module" . Not sure if Chrome APIs or settings have changed in the last three months (last time this repo was updated).

Can anyone else confirm my observations?

Yatskov commented 3 years ago

We are trying to maintain this extension in a working state on Chrome and Firefox (in dev mode) on Linux, but we don't have enough time to introduce new features. My Chrome version is 86.0.4240.198 and i can't reproduce your issue. Maybe be the problem is in the way you install this extension? If so you can read about installation on this page. There is more stable and supported version of similar extension provided by web scraper company, but unfortunately it doesn't have features we need.

Also we do not interact with Chrome API directly. Instead of this we use webextension polyfill library. Maybe we could update this library so it could help if Chrome API was updated.

Either way we will apreciate if you can send us more details about your issues.

mxsnq commented 3 years ago

Fresh install works fine for me too (Chrome 86.0.4240.198 on Win 10) with both 0.3.704 and 0.3.705 extension releases.