We are implementing share functionality in our react native app and I'm having difficulty with the appearance of the resulting share text.
Using the share API, if i set just the URL param to our website and share via sms the result looks great. I have set the image and title meta tags and they render in the sms as expected (ie I get a nice picture). However, if I want to add a dynamic message to the share text, via the message param it looks awful. I get 2 sms, one with a text link to the site (no image, no title), then a second sms with the message text. For reference, I am aiming for something in appearance to what you get when you share an app in iOS, like this:
But sharing just a URL via share I get this:
which looks nice, with image etc but no dynamic text.
As soon as i add some text via the message param, the result looks like this:
which looks pretty crappy.
It kind of feels like this is a pretty vanilla use case and i can't see what I'm doing wrong. Anyone got any ideas?
Edit: A simplified version of the code I'm using is as follows:
import { Share } from 'react-native'
const content = {
message: 'This is a lovely message',
url: 'https://www.google.com/chrome/'
}
try {
const result = await Share.share(content)
console.log('Shared', result)
if (result.action === Share.sharedAction) {
// shared
} else if (result.action === Share.dismissedAction) {
// IOS ONLY
// dismissed
}
} catch (err) {
console.log('Failed to share', err)
}
}
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Well I'm new to this app development thing especially react-native and I wanted to know when I'm trying to scrap a website using cheerio and axios in react-native and then save it to firebase realtime database in the following way:
and yes i have done all the imports and also initalized my app using firebaseConfig
const db = firebase.database();
async function loadFurniture() {
const Url = 'https://hoid.pk/product-category/bedroom/beds-bedroom/';
const html = await axios.get(Url); // fetch page
const $ = cheerio.load(html); //parse html String
const furniture = [];
$('.product-wrapper ').each((i, element) => {
const title = $(element).find('h2.product-name').text();
const imageUrl = $(element).find('img.primary_image').attr('src');
const price = $(element).find('span.woocommerce-Price-amount amount').text();
console.log(title);
furniture.push({ title, imageUrl, price });
});
// Save the furniture to the Firebase Realtime Database
db
.ref('/furniture/bed')
.set({
title: furniture.title,
price: furniture.price,
object_image : furniture.imageUrl,
})
.then(() => console.log('Data set.'));
console.log(furniture);
// Return the extracted information
return furniture;
}
and then calling this function in a button
<Button
title="Fetch"
onPress = {() => loadFurniture() }
/>
The data was not being scraped so I tried to console.log() the data being fetched.
Whenever I click the button there is no error but just a log [ Function initialize ] with respect to console.log(title)
And before anyone says yup I've looked into the structure and 9it does returns me my desired classes after axios.get()
I just want to know that if there's some error in my code or if I'm going wrong somewhere.
I tried to scrap furniture titles, images and prices from certain website and then save it to database for any further use but it's just not working.
I've checked my network issues the html page being scraped and everything else one can think of. Now i just want to know either my code is accurate or if there's some mistake.
I tired to scrap the data of same website using python and it scraps it perfectly.
Edit:
I found out that the cheerio.load() function is not working there was no problem with the database... Is there some problem with cheerio.load() in it's latest version "1.0.0-rc.12" ?? If so what's the solution... I've tried number of libraries and each is giving a different kind of error so cheerio might be the only possible solution so if there's an alternative way of using cheerio.load() in react native do let me know.
I'm working on a project that includes a module that helps with electricity recharge, so what happens is that the user's data is already saved in the app and when they choose to recharge, the app opens up this webpage in a web view.
Currently, I'm using WebBridgeView for opening the webpage as:-
render() {
return (
<WebViewBridge
ref="webviewbridge"
onBridgeMessage={this.onBridgeMessage.bind(this)}
source={{uri: "https://currencypin.com/PrepaidMeterPaymentsV2.0/cartwiz?c=IN&p=5&pm=tm"}}/>
);
}
}
Now, what I want is that when the webpage opens, the form fields come prefilled with the custom data that I have. So that the only field that the user needs to fill on the page is the CAPTCHA.
I was following this article for achieving the same, but it actually assumes that the website is customizable. Which is not possible in my case because it belongs to a 3rd party vendor.
What are the ways to achieve this?
You have to use the injectedJavaScript prop from WebView.
First declare a jsCode variable:
const amount = 2
const jscode = `
if (document.getElementById('txtAmount') == null) {
// field not existing, deal with the error
} else {
document.getElementById('txtAmount').value = '${amount}';
}
`
Please notice the " ` " character. Used to put variables in strings.
Then use it like so:
<WebViewBridge
ref="webviewbridge"
onBridgeMessage={this.onBridgeMessage.bind(this)}
injectedJavaScript={jsCode}
I have posted about this previously but still struggling to get a working version.
I want to create a sharable link from my app to a screen within my app and be able to pass through an ID of sorts.
I have a link on my home screen opening a link to my expo app with 2 parameters passed through as a query string
const linkingUrl = 'exp://192.168.0.21:19000';
...
_handleNewGroup = async () => {
try {
const group_id = await this.createGroupId()
Linking.openURL(`${linkingUrl}?screen=camera&group_id=${group_id}`);
}catch(err){
console.log(`Unable to create group ${err}`)
}
};
Also in my home screen I have a handler that gets the current URL and extracts the query string from it and navigates to the camera screen with a group_id set
async handleLinkToCameraGroup(){
Linking.getInitialURL().then((url) => {
let queryString = url.replace(linkingUrl, '');
if (queryString) {
const data = qs.parse(queryString);
if(data.group_id) {
this.props.navigation.navigate('Camera', {group_id: data.group_id});
}
}
}).catch(err => console.error('An error occurred', err));
}
Several issues with this:
Once linked to the app with the query string set, the values don't get reset so they are always set and therefore handleLinkToCameraGroup keeps running and redirecting.
Because the URL is not an http formatted URL, it is hard to extract the query string. Parsing the query string returns this:
{
"?screen": "camera",
"group_id": "test",
}
It doesn't seem right having this logic in the home screen. Surely this should go in the app.js file. But this causes complications not being able to use Linking because the RootStackNavigator is a child of app.js so I do not believe I can navigate from this file?
Any help clarifying the best approach to deep linking would be greatly appreciated.
somewhat of a javascript novice here.
I'm trying to create this: http://i.imgur.com/LXFzy.png from the Spotify UI Guidelines.
Basically a 64x64 album cover with an appropriate sized play button.
This is what I have so far:
function DataSource(playlist) {
this.count = function() {
return playlist.length;
}
// make node with cover, trackname, artistname
this.makeNode = function(track_num) {
var t = playlist.data.getTrack(track_num);
// console.log(t);
var li = new dom.Element('li');
//generate cover image with play/pause button
var track = m.Track.fromURI(t.uri, function(a) {
var trackPlayer = new v.Player();
trackPlayer.track;
trackPlayer.context = a;
dom.inject(trackPlayer.node, li, 'top')
});
//track name
var trackName = new dom.Element('p', {
className: 'track',
text: t.name
});
//artist name
var artistName = new dom.Element('p', {
className: 'artist',
text: t.artists[0].name
});
dom.adopt(li, trackName, artistName);
return li;
}
}
This datasource function feeds into a pager function later in the code. This code generates image, artist name and track name just fine except I can't seem to get the image to be 64x64 without overriding with my own css. I'm sure there is a way to set this in javascript since the core Spotify CSS files include a class for it however I'm at a loss at how to do it.
Also the play button renders but gives an error in the console that the track has no method 'get' when I click on it. How am I suppose to know it needs a get? Is there some way I can see this player function so I know what I'm doing wrong with it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm sure it'll help droves of people too as there is no documentation anywhere I can find on how to do this.
Check the code here: https://github.com/ptrwtts/kitchensink/blob/master/js/player.js
The kitchensink app displays a lot of the Spotify Apps API functionality
For the playback button, I know that it doesn't seem to actually work for single tracks used as the context. It really only works if you use either an Artist, Album, or Playlist context. Not sure why that is.
I've been trying to send data from my background page to a content script in my chrome extension. i can't seem to get it to work. I've read a few posts online but they're not really clear and seem quite high level. I've got managed to get the oauth working using the Oauth contacts example on the Chrome samples. The authentication works, i can get the data and display it in an html page by opening a new tab.
I want to send this data to a content script.
i'm having a lot of trouble with this and would really appreciate if someone could outline the explicit steps you need to follow to send data from a bg page to a content script or even better some code. Any takers?
the code for my background page is below (i've excluded the oauth paramaeters and other )
` function onContacts(text, xhr) {
contacts = [];
var data = JSON.parse(text);
var realdata = data.contacts;
for (var i = 0, person; person = realdata.person[i]; i++) {
var contact = {
'name' : person['name'],
'emails' : person['email']
};
contacts.push(contact); //this array "contacts" is read by the
contacts.html page when opened in a new tab
}
chrome.tabs.create({ 'url' : 'contacts.html'}); sending data to new tab
//chrome.tabs.executeScript(null,{file: "contentscript.js"});
may be this may work?
};
function getContacts() {
oauth.authorize(function() {
console.log("on authorize");
setIcon();
var url = "http://mydataurl/";
oauth.sendSignedRequest(url, onContacts);
});
};
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(getContacts);`
As i'm not quite sure how to get the data into the content script i wont bother posting the multiple versions of my failed content scripts. if I could just get a sample on how to request the "contacts" array from my content script, and how to send the data from the bg page, that would be great!
You have two options getting the data into the content script:
Using Tab API:
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#method-executeScript
Using Messaging:
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/messaging.html
Using Tab API
I usually use this approach when my extension will just be used once in a while, for example, setting the image as my desktop wallpaper. People don't set a wallpaper every second, or every minute. They usually do it once a week or even day. So I just inject a content script to that page. It is pretty easy to do so, you can either do it by file or code as explained in the documentation:
chrome.tabs.executeScript(tab.id, {file: 'inject_this.js'}, function() {
console.log('Successfully injected script into the page');
});
Using Messaging
If you are constantly need information from your websites, it would be better to use messaging. There are two types of messaging, Long-lived and Single-requests. Your content script (that you define in the manifest) can listen for extension requests:
chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener(function(request, sender, sendResponse) {
if (request.method == 'ping')
sendResponse({ data: 'pong' });
else
sendResponse({});
});
And your background page could send a message to that content script through messaging. As shown below, it will get the currently selected tab and send a request to that page.
chrome.tabs.getSelected(null, function(tab) {
chrome.tabs.sendRequest(tab.id, {method: 'ping'}, function(response) {
console.log(response.data);
});
});
Depends on your extension which method to use. I have used both. For an extension that will be used like every second, every time, I use Messaging (Long-Lived). For an extension that will not be used every time, then you don't need the content script in every single page, you can just use the Tab API executeScript because it will just inject a content script whenever you need to.
Hope that helps! Do a search on Stackoverflow, there are many answers to content scripts and background pages.
To follow on Mohamed's point.
If you want to pass data from the background script to the content script at initialisation, you can generate another simple script that contains only JSON and execute it beforehand.
Is that what you are looking for?
Otherwise, you will need to use the message passing interface
In the background page:
// Subscribe to onVisited event, so that injectSite() is called once at every pageload.
chrome.history.onVisited.addListener(injectSite);
function injectSite(data) {
// get custom configuration for this URL in the background page.
var site_conf = getSiteConfiguration(data.url);
if (site_conf)
{
chrome.tabs.executeScript({ code: 'PARAMS = ' + JSON.stringify(site_conf) + ';' });
chrome.tabs.executeScript({ file: 'site_injection.js' });
}
}
In the content script page (site_injection.js)
// read config directly from background
console.log(PARAM.whatever);
I thought I'd update this answer for current and future readers.
According to the Chrome API, chrome.extension.onRequest is "[d]eprecated since Chrome 33. Please use runtime.onMessage."
See this tutorial from the Chrome API for code examples on the messaging API.
Also, there are similar (newer) SO posts, such as this one, which are more relevant for the time being.