Chrome Extension Manifest 'Matches'
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I'm trying my hands at a simple Chrome Extension, but am running into a problem with providing a value for the matches
array in my content_scripts
.
{
"name": "My Extension",
"version": "1.0",
"description": "My Extension Experiment",
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "icon.png",
"default_title": "Ext",
"default_popup": "popup.html"
},
"content_scripts": {
"matches": ["http://*"],
"js": ["scripts.js"]
}
}
When I try to load this extension into Chrome, I get the following message:
Could not load extension from 'C:\Users\foo\Desktop\Extensions\bar'.
Invalid value for 'content_scripts'.
I cannot see what is "invalid" about my value though. What I'm trying to do is match every URL, so my extension can manipulate the DOM (via javascript within scripts.js
) of any page it is ran on. Am I missing something, going about this all wrong, or what?
update
After posting this question, I did notice that the Google example was slightly different than mine, so I modified my code a bit to reflect their syntax:
"content_scripts": [{
"matches": ["http://*"],
"js": ["scripts.js"]
}]
That being said, I still get the following error when trying to load my extension:
Could not load extension from 'C:\Users\foo\Desktop\Extensions\bar'.
Invalid value for 'content_scripts[0].matches[0]'.
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