Stack Exchange API in Chrome extension

Question

How I can connect my extension to the API? I tried to use this example code for connecting:

SE.init({ clientId: 1, key: '?', channelUrl: '?', complete: function (data) { alert('connected') } }); SE.authenticate({ success: function(data) { alert('ok') }, error: function(data) { alert('error') }, networkUsers: true }); 

Which value I should put in channelUrl? And how I can register app and get token key, if it will work locally?

Answer 1

I've built an extension that uses StackExchange API using OAuth2 flow. I did not use the JS SDK and did it manually instead.

Here is how I did it:

function auth(sendResponse) { const scope = 'read_inbox,no_expiry,private_info'; const clientId = '12364'; const redirectUrl = chrome.identity.getRedirectURL('oauth2'); const url = `https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=${clientId}&scope=${scope}&redirect_uri=${redirectUrl}`; chrome.identity.launchWebAuthFlow( { url: url, interactive: true }, redirect_url => { const token = redirect_url.match(/access_token=(.+)/)[1]; sendResponse({ token }); } ); }