How to access Firefox's DOM (or HTML content) from outside firefox.

Question

Hi guys!

I have a question:

My program will search FireFox windows opened by user. When a user open Firefox and enter any site, I want to search for a keyword in that page's HTML content.

How can I access Firefox's Active Tab's DOM (or HTML content) from outside firefox using my C++ program.

Is it possible? If so, can you give me some idea or links?

If it is not possible, how can I copy text to clipboard within Firebox without installing / setting up anything?

Best regards, Nuri Akman

Answer 1

It can be done through addons

Answer 2

To copy htm contents of a page in Firefox, use the View > Page Source menu and then copy the contents of the resulting window to the clipboard (Control-A to select all, Control-C to copy).

What is it that you're trying to do?

Answer 3

There is no built-in way to access the DOM of a web page inside Firefox from an external program. You can write an extension that implements some sort of IPC (using sockets or whatever) and communicate with that, but not built-in to Firefox.