Feature: Browser Extension about ai HOT 2 CLOSED

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Some background about browser extensions

I've worked on a bunch of extensions including one for a previous job. If you're looking to hook into GitHub.com, I'd recommend taking a peek at the Refined GitHub browser extension. They integrate seamlessly with GitHub.

All the code you write for the extension will work in Chromium based browsers that support extensions, and Firefox basically took on the same API as the Chrome Extension API, so for the most part the extension will be cross-browser. The main difference is Chromium based browser use the version 3 of the manifest while last I checked, Firefox still only supports version 2 of the manifest, although they are working on v3 support.

I'd also recommend using Parcel as the bundler for the project if this goes ahead as they support reloading the extension during development with the manifest version 3.

Suggested Approach

The approach you probably want to take is to integrate directly into the GitHub user interface by adding a Hot Sauce button. You could probably also add an option to the extension that auto-suggests to opensauced when the user stars a repo.

To implement this, you could add a click event listener to the button or link that stars the repo. The click event listener would see if the user has auto-suggest to opensauced, and if it does, it'd make an API call to opensauced to auto-suggest the repo. You could get the repo URL to send most likely via window.location.href

If the option to auto-suggest isn't enabled, surface a button to auto-suggest a submission to open sauced.

Happy to discuss this further and even pair with folks.

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I’m going to close this one and transfer the original (didn’t know that was a thing 🤷‍♂️
Cc @bdougie @nickytonline

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