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-rw-r--r--users/tazjin/nittredir/background.js10
-rw-r--r--users/tazjin/nittredir/manifest.json15
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diff --git a/users/tazjin/nittredir/background.js b/users/tazjin/nittredir/background.js
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+/**
+ * Register a URL change handler that redirects twitter.com links to nitter.net
+ */
+
+chrome.webRequest.onBeforeRequest.addListener(function(details) {
+  let url = new URL(details.url);
+  return {
+    redirectUrl: ('https://nitter.net' + url.pathname)
+  };
+}, {urls: ['*://twitter.com/*'], types: ['main_frame']}, ['blocking']);
diff --git a/users/tazjin/nittredir/manifest.json b/users/tazjin/nittredir/manifest.json
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+{
+  "manifest_version": 2,
+  "name": "nittredir",
+  "version": "1.0",
+  "description": "Redirect twitter.com to nitter.net",
+  "background": {
+    "scripts": ["background.js"],
+    "persistent": true
+  },
+  "permissions": [
+    "webRequest",
+    "webRequestBlocking",
+    "*://twitter.com/*"
+  ]
+}