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jwillmer / web-scraper-chrome-extension

Web data extraction tool implemented as chrome extension
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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showing error "Manifest file is missing or unreadable." #11

Closed tiddu closed 7 years ago

kznmft commented 7 years ago

Hello,

Did you load the extension folder?

tiddu commented 7 years ago

yes , i tried to add the folder via the "load unpacked extension" , and also by dragging. i tried my default chrome and a portable chrome , i also checked the json extension , also the file is in utf format rather than ansi.

kznmft commented 7 years ago
  1. how did you download the code? downloaded as a zip?
  2. when you go into the extension folder does the manifest.json file is present?
  3. Permission issues? does the user you have launched Chrome with has access to the folder?
tiddu commented 7 years ago

i checked all , i downloaded it as zip , and manifest file is present , and no permission problem. i am actually scraping through downloaded pages, i downloaded 9k pages via idm , and use webserver app to set localhost and i want to scrape through those 9k files , there should be no delay settings in this extension too , but first i coudlnt even load this extension.

tiddu commented 7 years ago

ok , issue is solved now , i was dragging the full folder rather than the extension folder , also the zip file downloaded doesnt have the css selector folder contents . so , i downloaded them separately and merge , and than i can load the extension easily.

kznmft commented 7 years ago

great. glad you solved it. Indeed adding css selector folder was the next step. I was just preparing to send you a folder with only the extension + css selector dependency.

can you please close the issue?

thanks!