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Kasi21
Kasi21

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Need help with Chrome extension learning project

Hi folks,

I'm trying to learn coding with a series of projects. I'm stuck on the first one and could use some help. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

I'm trying to create a Chrome extension that adds an image as the background for Twitter. I've successfully been able to do this for the Google homepage, but I can't get it to work on the Twitter page.

Could someone please help me to understand what I'm doing wrong?

The code is open in my GitHub: https://github.com/Kasi21/TwitterBackground

Thanks in advance, and looking forward to getting involved with this community!

Kas

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Tyler V. (he/him)

I played around with this a bit and eventually realized that the issue isn't with your code - it's that Twitter is blocking the image URL from being loaded!

You can tell it took a while from the "156" times the error showed up in my console πŸ˜…

Dev Console showing 156 errors of refused to load URL

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Kasi21

Ah, thanks so much for looking at this Tyler! πŸ¦Έβ€β™‚οΈ

Is that something Twitter is doing on purpose? Is there an alternative way to load the image URL so that it can be used as the background?

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Kasi21

Hi Tyler,

I managed to sort it out!

Thanks for your help - I wouldn't have been able to do it if you hadn't pointed me in the right direction regarding the error code! I posted in a couple of other forums, and I updated them with the answer and saying that I got it with help from the CodeNewbie Forum - so hopefully, that drives some traffic this way!

If anyone else is interested, basically, I had to load the background image locally by adapting the code from: github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-ext...

Cheers

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Tyler V. (he/him)

Glad I was able to get you in the right direction!

That's a neat way to resolve the error - glad you shared it so I can have it as a resource if I ever need it! πŸ₯³