Can I develop a Chrome extension that will, upon a click of a button, download the current webpage using the wget command? I'd like to know whether that is conceptually possible. The reason I want wget as opposed to simply saving the page is that with wget, it is possible to specify many different options.
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As far I know, the only one possibility to do such stuff, it's through NPAPI plugin
And if it's only for Your private usage (as not on all OSes You could have wget command), You could launch wget through AJAX :
Chrome Extension => AJAX call => Web server script => Wget launched
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Fedir, thanks for your answer. So by using NPAPI, will the extension work for any computer running on Linux? (since Linux has the `wget` command.) – JJ Beck Nov 01 '12 at 21:21
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Yes, You could achieve it. There are lots of questions around Chrome & NPAPI on StackOverflow. Ex. : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11382794/simple-example-for-npapi-plugin – Fedir RYKHTIK Nov 02 '12 at 07:05