Proof of concept chrome extension to listen to all tab events

background.js

function handleEvent(name, payload) {
  fetch('http://localhost:8118/report?'+JSON.stringify({name, payload}));
}

chrome.tabs.onActivated.addListener(
    (tabId, windowId) => handleEvent("activated", {tabId, windowId}));

chrome.tabs.onActiveChanged.addListener(
    (tabId, selectInfo) => handleEvent("activeChanged", {tabId, selectInfo}));

chrome.tabs.onAttached.addListener(
    (tabId, attachInfo) => handleEvent("attached", {tabId, attachInfo}));

chrome.tabs.onDetached.addListener(
    (tabId, detachInfo) => handleEvent("detached", {tabId, detachInfo}));

chrome.tabs.onCreated.addListener((tab) => handleEvent("created", {tab}));

chrome.tabs.onHighlightChanged.addListener(
    (selectInfo) => handleEvent("highlightChanged", {selectInfo}));

chrome.tabs.onHighlighted.addListener(
    (hightlighInfo) => handleEvent("hightlighted", {hightlighInfo}));

chrome.tabs.onMoved.addListener(
    (tabId, moveInfo) => handleEvent("moved", {tabId, moveInfo}));

chrome.tabs.onRemoved.addListener(
    (tabId, removeInfo) => handleEvent("removed", {tabId, removeInfo}));

chrome.tabs.onReplaced.addListener(
    (addedTabId, removedTabId) => handleEvent("replaced", {addedTabId, removedTabId}));

chrome.tabs.onReplaced.addListener(
    (addedTabId, removedTabId) => handleEvent("replaced", {addedTabId, removedTabId}));

chrome.tabs.onSelectionChanged.addListener(
    (tabId, selectInfo) => handleEvent("selectionChanged", {tabId, selectInfo}));

chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener(
    (tabId, changeInfo, tab) => handleEvent("updated", {tabId, changeInfo, tab}));

manifest.json

{
  "name": "Tab reporter",
  "description": "reports tab events",
  "version": "0.1",
  "permissions": ["tabs", "http://localhost:8118/*"],
  "background": {
    "persistent": false,
    "scripts": ["background.js"]
  },
  "manifest_version": 2
}

run_server.sh

# listen to events
janet -e '(import json) (net/server "0.0.0.0" 8118 (fn [conn] (as-> (net/read conn 4096) _ (string/split " " _) (_ 1) (string/slice _ 8) (string/replace-all "%22" "\"" _)  (json/decode _) (pp _)) (net/close conn)))'