Open and interact with a Chrome extension background service worker via Puppeteer CDP targets

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Verified steps

  1. Launch Chromium with the extension loaded: const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: false, args: ['--load-extension=/path/to/extension', '--disable-extensions-except=/path/to/extension'] })
  2. List all targets: const targets = await browser.targets()
  3. Find the service worker target: const swTarget = targets.find(t => t.type() === 'service_worker' && t.url().includes('chrome-extension://'))
  4. Attach a CDP session: const swClient = await swTarget.createCDPSession()
  5. Evaluate logic in the service worker: await swClient.send('Runtime.evaluate', { expression: 'self.registration.scope', returnByValue: true })
  6. Listen for messages from the extension: swClient.on('Runtime.consoleAPICalled', (event) => console.log(event.args))

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