popup.js

// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open(
    "GET",
    "http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?" +
        "method=flickr.photos.search&" +
        "api_key=90485e931f687a9b9c2a66bf58a3861a&" +
        "text=hello%20world&" +
        "safe_search=1&" +  // 1 is "safe"
        "content_type=1&" +  // 1 is "photos only"
        "sort=relevance&" +  // another good one is "interestingness-desc"
        "per_page=20",
    true);
// req.onload = showPhotos;
req.onload = getUrl;
req.send(null);

function getUrl() {
	document.getElementById('pageSummary').innerHTML = "<img src='loading.gif' />";
	// chrome.tabs.query({active: true}, function(tab) {
	chrome.tabs.getSelected(null, function(tab) {  // DEPRECATED
	  chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tab.id, {askFor: "body"}, function(response) {
			document.getElementById('pageSummary').innerHTML = response.docBody;
	  });
	});
}

	// PASS THE URL OF THE CURRENT TAB
  // document.getElementById('currentLink').innerHTML = tab.url;
	// });


// function showPhotos() {
  // var photos = req.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("photo");
  // 
  // for (var i = 0, photo; photo = photos[i]; i++) {
  //   var img = document.createElement("image");
  //   img.src = constructImageURL(photo);
  //   document.body.appendChild(img);
  // }
// }

// See: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.urls.html
// function constructImageURL(photo) {
//   return "http://farm" + photo.getAttribute("farm") +
//       ".static.flickr.com/" + photo.getAttribute("server") +
//       "/" + photo.getAttribute("id") +
//       "_" + photo.getAttribute("secret") +
//       "_s.jpg";
// }