Chrome Extension for Recording Chromebook Sign-ins

[jthompson]

Hi all

 

I'm attempting to cobble together a Chrome extension that will log which users signed in to which devices and when. This is to help pinpoint vandalism, etc. on shared Chromebooks. The recent users list provided in Google Admin is insufficient as it doesn't provide any timestamps against usernames, and more detailed logging still doesn't seem to be available.

 

It's my first time doing anything much with Javascript, Chrome extension development, etc. and needing a few pointers. I plan on sharing this stuff if I can get it working, since I know other schools may want itemised Chromebook sign-in logging, too.

 

I've managed to make a Chrome extension that will grab the current username and the hostname of the current device and display that in a little pop-up, but I just need to work out how to get the extension to make an HTTP post request containing those two bits of info.

I've created an AppSheet app for the purposes of testing, to which I've successfully been able to send username/hostname combos via HTTP post requests (from an Apps Script project). If I can get the Chrome extension to successfully make those API calls, I'll have produced a proof of concept that I can then build on. This is where I'm coming up short and Googling is not really helping to clarify things.

 

Does anyone have experience of building Chrome extensions?