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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?

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    I'm having the same issue, did you manage to resolve this?
    – Tom Maton
    Sep 1, 2014 at 14:09
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    If anyone still has this issue, comment @ reply to me here and I will write up an answer. (But current low view count suggests very little interest.) And anonymous feedback is not promising either. Aug 23, 2018 at 21:45

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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 });
    }
  );
}
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    This code works perfectly. But make sure to add the redirectUrl for your app as chromiumapp.org in the OAuth Domain in your stackApp configuration - reference (stackoverflow.com/a/31169304/6908282)
    – Gangula
    Sep 7, 2022 at 15:15
  • can you confirm if the OAuth Domain needs to be stackexchange.com instead. Because firefox has a different domain allizom.org, due to which i'm not able to use the plugin in firefox.
    – Gangula
    Sep 18, 2022 at 11:53

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