Start an external application from a Google Chrome Extension

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How to start an external application from a Google Chrome Extension   So basically I have an executable file which does the job when you launch it  I need to be able to start it without a window  it is a console application  and pass the current URL to it in an argument

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Previously  you would do this through NPAPI plugins   However  Google is now phasing out NPAPI for Chrome  so the preferred way to do this is using the native messaging API  The external application would have to register a native messaging host in order to exchange messages with your application

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There s an extension for Chrome  SimpleGet  that has a plugin for Windows and Linux that can execute an app with command line parameters          http   pinel cc      http   code google com p simple-get      http   www chromeextensions org other simple-get

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Question has a good pagerank on google  so for anyone who s looking for answer to this question this might be helpful   There is an extension in google chrome marketspace to do exactly that  https   chrome google com webstore detail hccmhjmmfdfncbfpogafcbpaebclgjcp

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You can t launch arbitrary commands  but if your users are willing to go through some extra setup  you can use custom protocols   E g  you have the users set things up so that some-app    links start  SomeApp   and then in my-awesome-extension you open a tab pointing to some-app   some-data-the-app-wants  and you re good to go

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I go for hypothesys since I can t verify now   With Apache  if you make a php script on your local machine calling your executable  and then call this script via POST or GET via html javascript   would it function   let me know

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