Running additonal Chrome extensions while distilling

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Hey folks,

For some monitoring I am using distill locally again for the time being. And I wonder what the best approach would be to fetch some data from the distill-watched pages in the background. I made an extension to do just that wwhen manually opening the pages, but at least for now it does not run in the local distill routines.

How can I make sure that other extensions are thrown on the distill’ed pages?
Or would I have to write my own extension for that? Would be a pity, though.

Any insights into that would be very much appreciated.

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Hello @stiller_distiller, browsers prevent access to an extension’s pages to other extensions because they are privileged.

An alternative to export data automatically is by using webhooks to save data to a spreadsheet. Checkout the following tutorial https://distill.io/blog/how-to-save-webpage-changes-in-spreadsheets/