Invoking a Google Chrome extension from Javascript

Question

There is an excellent extension called Blipshot which takes page screenshots. I need to invoke the extension with page level javascript, instead of clicking its icon. Is thi

Answer 1

It would only be possible if the extension provides an interface to do it. Extensions run in an isolated environment, so you don't have direct access to any of their functions.

The closest they get is content scripts, which have access to the DOM. Because of that, you can communicate using events, but obviously the extension would need to set up event handlers for them, so it completely depends on the extension.