Question

I’m working on a chrome extension that will always have a current user who is logged in to GitHub. In order to switch users, I want to have a log out button in my extension that logs the current user out.

I’ve tried simply

chrome.windows.create({'url':'https://github.com/logout'})

Which takes me to the GitHub logout page but there is still a confirmation that the user would have to click on to successfully logout. I would like to be able to log the user out in the background or at a minimum, without them having to click on an additional confirmation.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Working Solution

When I called https://github.com/logout from an external page it showed a form with a submit/confirm button to logout. The form doesn’t have an id or class but I managed to submit it using

 document.getElementsByTagName('form')[1].submit();

Of course, this isn’t ideal since it will break if github changes the layout of their logout page. Also, there is a delay between when the page is loaded and the form is submitted which isn’t very user friendly. I’ll update here if I find a better solution