Its main purpose is to answer the question:
What is the ID of a given URL for profile/post?
The answer varies between sites, but for the likes of twitter/youtube profile ID allows to find the profile even after the name change. That's why you still get the followed twitter profiles appearing on your home feed even after they change their handle.
What it doesn't do?
- download files
- upload to other file hostings
- archive pages
- look up the IDs somewhere
- do any outside connections at all
- change the content of the site
- chat with other users of this extension
What does it do?
On clicking the extension button in the current tab for the URL it recognizes it will collect the data currently present on the page and then show it.
The benefit of this approach is all html/javascript/bot protection work is done in the truest way possible by the real browser so it simplifies crawling logic to just javacscript. Firefox also runs the extension scripts in a separate sandbox, so the target site will not be able to detect it baseline.
From these points arise the limitations:
- The extension will not perform any actions beyond reading the contents of the page it recognizes. That means if a site operates on the ID through javascript by making connections to API without storing it somewhere in the page or URL, it's off-limits for the extension. So far I haven't seen one, but it's a possibility.
- The extension will not parse any javascript or html. I.e. even if there is `<script>const PROFILE_ID = "<span>123456</span>"</script>` somewhere in the document, it's off-limits for the extension.
Extension page:
What is the ID of a given URL for profile/post?
The answer varies between sites, but for the likes of twitter/youtube profile ID allows to find the profile even after the name change. That's why you still get the followed twitter profiles appearing on your home feed even after they change their handle.
What it doesn't do?
- download files
- upload to other file hostings
- archive pages
- look up the IDs somewhere
- do any outside connections at all
- change the content of the site
- chat with other users of this extension
What does it do?
On clicking the extension button in the current tab for the URL it recognizes it will collect the data currently present on the page and then show it.
The benefit of this approach is all html/javascript/bot protection work is done in the truest way possible by the real browser so it simplifies crawling logic to just javacscript. Firefox also runs the extension scripts in a separate sandbox, so the target site will not be able to detect it baseline.
From these points arise the limitations:
- The extension will not perform any actions beyond reading the contents of the page it recognizes. That means if a site operates on the ID through javascript by making connections to API without storing it somewhere in the page or URL, it's off-limits for the extension. So far I haven't seen one, but it's a possibility.
- The extension will not parse any javascript or html. I.e. even if there is `<script>const PROFILE_ID = "<span>123456</span>"</script>` somewhere in the document, it's off-limits for the extension.
Extension page:
