This is an extension for Google Chrome that:
- displays the latest links from Y Combinator's Hacker News
- Offers a link for submitting the url of the current tab.
- shows previous results when submitting in case someone recently submitted
This extension has not yet been published. To use this you'll have to:
- clone this repo
- open
chrome://extensions/and enable Developer mode - "Load unpacked" and open the folder that contains this repo
Now you should have the orange "Y" square in your chrome extensions list (I use it often enough that I "pin" it to the top.)
- click it to see the HN front page, and search
- whatever page you are on, you can use this extension to submit that current page
My other fave extension: https://github.com/sw-yx/Twitter-Links-beta
The starter code for this extension came from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news/geancnifhbkbjijfkcjjdnfemppmcjmk
Migrated to v3 with https://blog.shahednasser.com/chrome-extension-tutorial-migrating-to-manifest-v3-from-v2/#from-background-scripts-to-service-workers
other helpful:
- https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/content_scripts/
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9444926/chrome-extension-in-tabs-doc-dont-exist-this-chrome-tabs-getselected-but-i-s
- https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/gywzLNsOMVI?pli=1
- loading js files (i gave up)
- lastChangedWindow -> currentWindow