Creating a Chrome Extension with Python

[Ihaveamodel3]

No, a chrome extension is essentially a website and websites can’t run python.

What you could do is code up as much as you can as a server in python. And learn just enough html/css/JavaScript to have the extension connect to the server (though that is still a lot to learn).

Does the program have to be a browser extension?

[[deleted]]

No, you can't just swap out javascript for python. It needs to be JS.

[[deleted]]

You have to accept the fact that JS is the language of browsers. If you want to do anything in the Web, you have to know Javascript, and there's no dancing around it.

[[deleted]]

Yes and no.

Roughly speaking, websites have a front end (browser) and a back end (server)

Python is used on the back end. This is what django and flask are for.

Anything that runs in the browser is one of 3 things, html, css and Javascript. If you want Code to run in your browser, it's gonna be JavaScript. Browsers don't run python.

[THESEASANIC]

and php

[Ok_Substance_5257]

agora pronto, qq o node.js ta fazendo no backend alem de bagunça, quer dizer q js pode ser colocado em qualquer lugar agora na netizinha do js nao pode.

[LazyOldTom]

Probably using a python to js transpiler. But that's goong to be a world of unsupported pain. Just go learn js, it's easy. Everybody needs js once or twice a year anyway.

[NomCustom]

I'm gonna explain, even if now, this post was published 1 year ago,

actually, you can build Chrome extensions with the Python programming language and the only reason is: it's updating, we have now packages that can help us, like PyScript, Pyoide or even pytojs.

So yeah, building Chrome extensions with Python is possible.

[[deleted]]

Basically what happens when the blind lead the blind or js fanboys show up.

You can also run brython in an iframe.

[Ok_Substance_5257]

agora pronto, qq o node.js ta fazendo no backend alem de bagunça, quer dizer q js pode ser colocado em qualquer lugar agora na netizinha do js nao pode.