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how to specify include and exclude url patterns together in a pageMod?

I want my pageMod to load for all pages except a particular domain(s).

currently i have specified

include:['*'] in the pageMod that loads it for all urls.

how can i make it avoid particular domains such as www.example.com and load for the rest?

Solution

  • There is no 'exclude' property for page-mod ( and after some fiddling I could not get negative lookahead assertions to work well ), so I expect the best route might be to use the tabs module instead:

    var tabs = require('tabs');

tabs.on('open', function(tab) {
    // some url exclusion logic?
    if (tab.url.indexOf('http://example.com') !== -1) {
        tab.on('ready', function(tab) {
            let worker = tab.attach({
                contentScriptfile: data.url('somefile.js')
            });

            worker.on('event', function(message) {
                //...
            });
        });
    }
});