I very briefly looked into extensions for some things I wanted to do, but got kind of lost in the documentation. The browsers seem to expose a very large API and I failed to figure out if it supports what I wanted.
Essentially what I wanted was to be able to implement a simplified version of the "wget" command. I wanted to be able to invoke the extension on a page and have it save the current page contents to a file, then navigate to each link on the page that doesn't go offsite and save those pages, and so on to a specified depth.
(Why not just use wget itself from my terminal? Because the pages I was interested in have JavaScript that modifies the DOM, and it is that modified DOM I want).
Essentially what I wanted was to be able to implement a simplified version of the "wget" command. I wanted to be able to invoke the extension on a page and have it save the current page contents to a file, then navigate to each link on the page that doesn't go offsite and save those pages, and so on to a specified depth.
(Why not just use wget itself from my terminal? Because the pages I was interested in have JavaScript that modifies the DOM, and it is that modified DOM I want).