如何使用本地脚本编写用于chrome扩展的配置文件

Question

I have a chrome extension (intended to be used by companies internally) that needs to have user specific configurations but I want to avoid the user having to do all that and have a sysadmin configure those things for them via a script.

EDIT: Basically, I just need to read from a file that sysadmin can write.

Is this in any way possible?

Answer 1

Assuming you have an enterprise install, you can use chrome.storage.managed (which can be easily controlled from a central location) to hold those preferences.

See Configuring Apps and Extensions by Policy for a detailed, per-OS explanation.

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If an enterprise managed storage is not an option, perhaps a better one would be to have a configuration file available somewhere on an internal web server. The extension can then retrieve that pre-defined URL and configure itself accordingly.

You can differentiate between computers automatically using IP/MAC address information accessible by the server processing the request, of you can pass some query parameters yourself.

Answer 2

You have two solutions.

First one is to ask your sysadmin to properly locate chrome's extension folder on all platforms, and edit a file in there. It might be a bit complicated if all computers at your company are not the same or use different platforms.

See: Where to find extensions installed folder for Google Chrome on Mac?

The second one, is simply to ask for the file:///* permission when you install the extension.

It will allow your extension to read files on the whole hard drive, and load the configuration file on a predetermined place.

Here is a related question: Chrome plugin reading text file on hard drive and replacing textbox content

edit: for the second solution to work, you need your users to enable "Allow access to file URLs" in chrome's config (not sure you can do that automatically)