I wanted to build a Google Chrome extension that would display domain popularity, the way Alexa domain stats did;

I am able to display any data inside popup.html when user clicks my extension button (to show domain rank, backlinks, etc) but in background I need to track popular urls visited by users.

Using manifest v3, I was able (inside background.js) to detect and trigger code on each url change, but I cannot find a function that would allow the extension to ping my servers in order to tell what url/domain is visited by user.

I assume best way to do this is to make an URL get request in background. How can I do something like that ? Basically I want the extension to send a text message to an url of mine.

CodePudding user response：

As wOxxOm mentioned you can use built in fetch API. As mentioned in this documentation, you can use fetch like this -

fetch(your_url, fetchParams) //fetch returns promise, that resolves to a response object
.then(response => response.json()) //assuming JSON response
.then(data => console.log(data))
.catch(err => console.error(err));

where fetchParam is typically a javascript object that follows the documentation mentioned above. you can add your custom data in the fetchParam's body key. like this

fetchParam = {
                method: your_metod,
                headers: your_header_object,
                body: your_data
            };

Hope I understood the question correctly.