How to write a configuration file for chrome extension using a local script

Question

I have a chrome extension (intended to be used by companies internally) that needs to have user specific configurations but I want to avoid the user having to do all that and have a sysadmin configure those things for them via a script.

EDIT: Basically, I just need to read from a file that sysadmin can write.

Is this in any way possible?

Answer 1

You have two solutions.

First one is to ask your sysadmin to properly locate chrome's extension folder on all platforms, and edit a file in there. It might be a bit complicated if all computers at your company are not the same or use different platforms.

See: Where to find extensions installed folder for Google Chrome on Mac?

The second one, is simply to ask for the file:///* permission when you install the extension.

It will allow your extension to read files on the whole hard drive, and load the configuration file on a predetermined place.

Here is a related question: Chrome plugin reading text file on hard drive and replacing textbox content

edit: for the second solution to work, you need your users to enable "Allow access to file URLs" in chrome's config (not sure you can do that automatically)