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How to read full HTML content with an AddOn

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I want to develop a Firefox AddOn. I still read and tried some of the the AddOn tutorials.

But it is still hard for me to start something usefull. I have no idea about JavaScript but very familiar with Python, C/C++ and some other languages.

One of my first tasks would be to read HTML content of the current page. I want to find and extract a newsfeed URL like this

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Aktuelle News von heise online" href="https://www.heise.de/rss/heise-atom.xml"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Aktuelle News von heise online (für ältere RSS-Reader)" href="https://www.heise.de/rss/heise.rdf">

Of course I do not expect a full solution from you. I just need a hint which of the multiple addon parts are responsible for a task like this? What are the keywords here? Where is the relevant part of the API reference.

Can you point me to the right direction?

I want to develop a Firefox AddOn. I still read and tried some of the the AddOn tutorials. But it is still hard for me to start something usefull. I have no idea about JavaScript but very familiar with Python, C/C++ and some other languages. One of my first tasks would be to read HTML content of the current page. I want to find and extract a newsfeed URL like this <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Aktuelle News von heise online" href="https://www.heise.de/rss/heise-atom.xml"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Aktuelle News von heise online (für ältere RSS-Reader)" href="https://www.heise.de/rss/heise.rdf"> Of course I do not expect a full solution from you. I just need a hint which of the multiple addon parts are responsible for a task like this? What are the keywords here? Where is the relevant part of the API reference. Can you point me to the right direction?

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buhtz said

Is this forum the right place to aks questions like this? Normal I ask on StackOverflow but it is hard to create a minimal working example for Firefox AddOns.

Hello buhtz,

Maybe you'd like to post your question here :

https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/add-ons

(you could just copy and post what you posted here ..... )

Good luck  !

This is something that might interest you :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/

and :

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons

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buhtz
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Is this forum the right place to aks questions like this?

Normal I ask on StackOverflow but it is hard to create a minimal working example for Firefox AddOns.

McCoy
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Réiteach Roghnaithe

buhtz said

Is this forum the right place to aks questions like this? Normal I ask on StackOverflow but it is hard to create a minimal working example for Firefox AddOns.

Hello buhtz,

Maybe you'd like to post your question here :

https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/add-ons

(you could just copy and post what you posted here ..... )

Good luck  !

This is something that might interest you :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/

and :

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons

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