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A sample script showing the capabilities of the Platypush web extension web scripts API
/**
* This script shows some of the capabilities of the Platypush Script API, and how
* you can leverage the provided API to create custom scripts that can be executed
* from anywhere in your browser.
*
* In order to create a new script:
*
* 1. Make sure that you have added at least one Platypush device in the extension
* configuration.
*
* 2. Select the device from the menu -> Run Action -> select "Script" on "Action mode".
*
* 3. Create your script, test it, and when you're happy save it. It will be listed
* among the available actions and you can run it on any tab either from the toolbar
* menu or from any context menu.
*
* 4. Note: some of the APIs (like those used to access the DOM or the current
* tab) won't be available in the context of the extension (i.e. when you test
* your script on the extension page) due to browser sandboxing limitations.
*/
export default {
example: async (app, args) => {
// Show the available arguments
console.log('Arguments', args);
/* Output:
* args = {
* // This is the Platypush host selected in the context
* host: {
* // Host name
* name: "your_host",
* // Host IP/DNS name
* address: "192.168.1.3",
* // HTTP port
* port: 8008,
* // Websocket port
* websocketPort: 8009,
* // Uses SSL
* ssl: false,
* // Access token:
* token: "your_token"
* },
*
* // Set if the action is executed from the context menu
* tabId: <selectedTabId>,
*
* // Set if the action is executed from the context menu on a page element
* target: "<target html>"
* }
*/
// Show the available API
console.log('API', app);
// Run a Platypush action on the selected host (example: play/pause the music)
const response = await app.run({ action: 'music.mpd.pause', args: {} }, args.host);
console.log('Response from Platypush server', response);
// Get the URL in the current tab
const url = await app.getURL();
console.log('URL', url);
// Set the current page URL (i.e. change the current page)
app.setURL('https://www.google.com/');
// Open a URL in a new tab
app.openTab('https://www.google.com/');
// The app API also exposes the axios library for performing AJAX calls
const apiResponse = await app.axios.get('https://yourdomain.com/api/v1/your/endpoint');
console.log('API response', apiResponse);
// Get the DOM object of the current page
const dom = await app.getDOM();
// You can perform any transformations on the DOM. For instance, the API
// also exposes the Mercury Parser API for simplifying/distlling text from
// HTML. You can use it to simplify the content of any page.
const simplifiedDOM = await app.mercury.parse(url, dom.body.innerHTML);
// Finally, you can use setDOM to replace the content of the page
await app.setDOM(`<html><head>${simplifiedDOM.title}</head><body>${simplifiedDOM.content}</body></html>`);
// If the user spawned this action from a context menu after clicking on
// an element then you can grab the target element
if (args.target) {
console.log('Selected element (HTML)', args.target);
// Convert HTML to DOM
const targetDOM = app.HTML2DOM(args.target);
console.log('Selected element (DOM)', targetDOM);
}
// Anything returned from the function will be returned to the called
return 42;
},
};
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