Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: electron-inject
Version: 0.5
Summary: An electron application wrapper that utilizes the remote debug console to inject code into electron applications to enable developer tools
Home-page: https://github.com/tintinweb/electron-inject/
Author: tintinweb
Author-email: tintinweb@oststrom.com
License: GPLv3
Download-URL: https://github.com/tintinweb/electron-inject/tarball/v0.5
Description: # 💉 electron-inject
        
        You find yourself locked out of closed source electron applications with no easy way to enable developer tools? ↷ *electron-inject* is here to help 👲
        
        
        *electron-inject* is an application wrapper that utilizes the remote debug console to inject javascript code into electron based applications. For example, this can be pretty handy to enable otherwise unavailable features like the built-in developer console.
        
        ![slack](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2865694/24376228/70b2c2b0-133b-11e7-893c-c7a0ad262343.gif)
        
        
        # install
        
            $ pip install electron-inject
            
        or 
        
            $ python setup.py install
            
        # usage
        
            $ python -m electron_inject --help
            Usage:
                usage:
                       electron_inject [options] - <electron application>
        
                example:
                       electron_inject --enable-devtools-hotkeys - /path/to/electron/powered/application [--app-params app-args]
        
        
            Options:
              -h, --help            show this help message and exit
              -d, --enable-devtools-hotkeys
                                    Enable Hotkeys F12 (Toggle Developer Tools) and F5
                                    (Refresh) [default: False]
              -b, --browser         Launch Devtools in default browser. [default: False]
              -t TIMEOUT, --timeout=TIMEOUT
                                    Try hard to inject for the time specified [default:
                                    none]
        
        # Showcase
        
        Inject hotkeys *F12:toggle devconsole* and *F5:reload* into closed source apps with devconsole disabled.
        
        `--enable-devtools-hotkeys` .. enable developer hotkeys
        `--timeout=xx` .. patch all known remote webContent/windows in a timeframe of `xx` seconds. set this to an arbitrary high value to make sure we're patching all future windows.
        
        ## whatsapp
        
        `$ python -m electron_inject -d -t 60 - \\PATH\TO\Local\WhatsApp\app-0.2.2244\WhatsApp.exe`
        
        ![whatsapp gif](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2865694/24376256/81d44e88-133b-11e7-961f-060e7b8201ed.gif)
        
        If this gives you an error try launching it with the alternative browser method:
        
        `$ python -m electron_inject --browser - \PATH\TO\Local\WhatsApp\app-0.2.2244\WhatsApp.exe`
        
        ## slack
        
        `$ python -m electron_inject -d -t 60 - \\PATH\TO\Local\slack\app-2.5.2\slack.exe`
        
        ![slack](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2865694/24376228/70b2c2b0-133b-11e7-893c-c7a0ad262343.gif)
        
        
Keywords: electron,inject,devtools,developer tools
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