Make Zeitgeist aware of files downloaded by Chrome

Bug #787803 reported by Zaki Manian
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Zeitgeist Data-Sources
In Progress
Low
Steve Dodier-Lazaro

Bug Description

The Zeitgeist data source plugin for Chrome currently logs website the user visits in Chrome.

A useful additional capability would be for Zeitgeist to be aware of downloaded files.

It would simply the workflow of Download Something->Do Something with it.

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Seif Lotfy (seif) wrote : Re: [Bug 787803] [NEW] Make Zeitgeist aware of files downloaded by Chrome

YES THIS IS AWESOME
Thanks
Seif

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Zaki Manian <email address hidden> wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> The Zeitgeist data source plugin for Chrome currently logs website the
> user visits in Chrome.
>
> A useful additional capability would be for Zeitgeist to be aware of
> downloaded files.
>
> It would simply the workflow of Download Something->Do Something with
> it.
>
> ** Affects: zeitgeist-datasources
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/787803
>
> Title:
> Make Zeitgeist aware of files downloaded by Chrome
>
> Status in Zeitgeist Data-Sources:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> The Zeitgeist data source plugin for Chrome currently logs website the
> user visits in Chrome.
>
> A useful additional capability would be for Zeitgeist to be aware of
> downloaded files.
>
> It would simply the workflow of Download Something->Do Something with
> it.
>

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Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha) wrote :

If I remember, there is a similar wishlist for FireFox too

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Zaki Manian (zmanian) wrote :

Apparently there isn't any way for chrome to notify extensions of downloads right now.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=12133

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Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha) wrote :

If there isnt any way for chrome to notify extensions they I have a hack in mind, but that would be pretty brutal

The out of box installation of Chrome/Chromium downloads anything in Downloads folder. We are keep a inotify watch(ugly) for new files downloaded, but I am not sure if inotify can find out which process is creating a file.

1) There is an option to change the Download directory.
2) There is an option for prompting the user to choose the download folder everything the user downloads something.
These two options might break the hacky workaround.

If we are read the config file which stores the download directory, then 1 can be fixed, but 2 would still break.

Changed in zeitgeist-datasources:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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Steve Dodier-Lazaro (sidi) wrote :

Download watching is provided by the Chromium API, see https://code.launchpad.net/~sidi/zeitgeist-datasources/chromium-native which successfully records downloads.

Please note you will need to adjust the authorised extensions in the JSON file of the host based on whatever extension id is given to you by Chromium when loading the extension. This problem should disappear once the extension is published and the host packaged for your distribution.

Changed in zeitgeist-datasources:
assignee: nobody → Steve Dodier-Lazaro (sidi)
status: Triaged → In Progress
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