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Asked: 2026-05-24T22:30:44+00:00

I can’t seem to find a way to click gmail’s show original button programmatically

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I can’t seem to find a way to click gmail’s show original button programmatically in a chrome extension, there doesn’t appear to be any link in the source.

However the url is similar to the formatted email and perhaps could be constructed, except it has some kind of user id which I have no way of obtaining:

regular mail view: 

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/131bfc47a65cb2fe

show original:

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=8b4b18b93a&view=om&th=131bfc47a65cb2fe

note the user id &ik=8b4b18b93a

is it possible to get a link to show original?

thanks

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  1. Editorial Team

    When I click “View page source” on any gmail page I see this key inside var GLOBALS=[...] array. I would read gmail page source from a background page using XMLHttpRequest and then parse it with regular expressions to find this key.

    Another way would be to inject <script> tag to gmail page using a content script, and then pass this GLOBALS array back to a content script using custom events (all this to break out of content script sandbox).

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