Chrome desktop notifications for GitHub

I’ve been looking for something to notify me about new GitHub notifications, and didn’t find anything. As I also wanted to take a look at the desktop notifications API, I decided to write a small Chrome extension that displays GitHub’s notifications as desktop notifications.

There’s no API or feed to get those notifications from, so I ended up scraping that data from the HTML page using XmlHttpRequest. The options page lets you set the interval for checking for new notifications.

You can browse the source at github.com/shesek/github-notifications, or download the packed extesntion here. Released under WTFPL 2.0.

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