Chrome extension to parse Google results doesn't work

Question

I\'ve been experimenting with the Chrome extensions mechanism, and been trying to write an extension that would manipulate Google results (add comments, screenshots, favicon

Answer 1

I just wrote an extension that manipulates Google search results. It seems the issue is that the results are almost always fetched via AJAX. I used MutationObserver to periodically check for changes in the results. There are two types of Google Search pages (which I have encountered thus far): Standard and Google Instant. For standard pages, you need to observe the body element (you can use selector "#gsr"), but for Google Instant, you can just look for the containing DIV ("#search"). You will want to observe childList and subtree mutations.

(Edited per @ExpertSystem's comments)