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+<script>
+	var reddit_session = null;
+	setBadgeDefaults();
+	window.localStorage.clear();
+	chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener(listenToTabs);
+	chrome.tabs.onRemoved.addListener(cleanCache);
+	chrome.cookies.get({url: 'http://reddit.com', name: 'reddit_session'}, function(cookie){
+		reddit_session = cookie.value;
+		console.log('cookie.value = ' + cookie.value);
+	});
+	
+	function setBadgeDefaults(tabId) {
+		chrome.browserAction.setBadgeBackgroundColor({
+			color: [192,192,192,255] //r,g,b,a
+		});
+		chrome.browserAction.onClicked.removeListener(submitToReddit);
+		if(tabId) {
+			chrome.browserAction.setBadgeText({
+				text: '?',
+				tabId: tabId
+			});
+			chrome.browserAction.setTitle({
+				title: 'Refresh the page to load data.',
+				tabId: tabId
+			});
+		} else {
+			chrome.browserAction.setBadgeText({
+				text: '?',
+			});
+			chrome.browserAction.setTitle({
+				title: 'Refresh the page to load data.'
+			});
+		}
+	}
+	function cleanCache() {
+		// find old caches from localStorage and remove anything older than ___.
+	}
+	function listenToTabs(tabId,changeInfo,tab){
+		if(changeInfo.status === 'loading') {
+			grabData(tab.url,tabId);
+		}
+	}
+	function grabData(url,tabId) {
+		//check if the url has been cached recently
+		if(window.localStorage.getItem(url) === null || JSON.parse(window.localStorage.getItem(url)).cachetime - new Date < -60000) {
+			console.log('Loading from reddit api...');
+			var reqUrl = 'http://www.reddit.com/api/info.json?url=' + encodeURI(url);
+			var api = new XMLHttpRequest();
+			api.open('GET',reqUrl,false);
+			api.send(null);
+			if(api.status !== 200) {
+				console.error('Error loading API.\nURL: ' + reqUrl + '\nStatus: ' + api.status);
+				console.log(api);
+				setBadgeDefaults(tabId);
+			}
+			api.onload = prepareButton(JSON.parse(api.responseText),url,tabId);
+		} else {
+			console.log('Loading from cache...');
+			prepareButton(JSON.parse(window.localStorage.getItem(url)).response,url,tabId);
+		}
+	}
+	function prepareButton(response,pageUrl,tabId) {
+		// add response to cache to reduce API calls
+		if(window.localStorage.getItem(pageUrl) === null || JSON.parse(window.localStorage.getItem(pageUrl)).cachetime - new Date < -60000) {
+			var toCache = new Object();
+			toCache.cachetime = new Date();
+			toCache.response = response;
+			window.localStorage.setItem(pageUrl,JSON.stringify(toCache));
+			delete toCache;
+		}
+		
+		// counts submissions and prepare the browserAction button appropriately
+		var numberOfSubmissions = response.data.children.length.toString();
+		if(numberOfSubmissions > 0) {
+			chrome.browserAction.setTitle({
+				title: 'This page has been submitted to reddit ' + numberOfSubmissions + ' times.',
+				tabId: tabId
+			});
+			chrome.browserAction.setBadgeText({
+				text: numberOfSubmissions,
+				tabId: tabId
+			});
+			chrome.browserAction.setPopup({
+				popup: 'popup.html',
+				tabId: tabId
+			});
+			chrome.browserAction.setBadgeBackgroundColor({
+				color: [255,69,0,255], //r,g,b,a,
+				tabId: tabId
+			});
+			chrome.browserAction.onClicked.removeListener(submitToReddit);
+		} else {
+			chrome.browserAction.setTitle({
+				title: 'Submit this page to reddit',
+				tabId: tabId
+			});
+			chrome.browserAction.setBadgeText({
+				text: '',
+				tabId: tabId
+			});
+			chrome.browserAction.setPopup({
+				popup: '',
+				tabId: tabId
+			});
+			chrome.browserAction.onClicked.removeListener(submitToReddit);
+			chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(submitToReddit);
+		}
+	}
+	function submitToReddit(tab){
+		chrome.tabs.create({
+			url: 'http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=' + encodeURI(tab.url)
+		});
+	}
+</script>
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+{
+	"name": "Best Reddit Check",
+	"version": "0.1",
+	"description": "Easily see how many times URL has been posted to reddit, join the discussion, submit or repost it, and more!",
+	"browser_action": {
+		"default_icon": "alien.png"
+	},
+	"permissions": [
+		"http://*.reddit.com/",
+		"tabs",
+		"cookies"
+	],
+	"background_page": "background.html"
+}
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+<!doctype html>
+<html>
+	<head>
+		<title>TESTING the title</title>
+		<meta charset="utf-8">
+		<style>
+			body {
+				min-width: 700px;
+				overflow-x: hidden;
+				overflow-y: auto;
+				font: normal x-small verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
+			}
+			a {
+				text-decoration: none;
+			}
+			a:hover {
+				text-decoration: underline;
+			}
+			#posts {
+				list-style-type: none;
+				margin:0;
+				padding:0;
+			}
+			#posts > li:before {
+				content: counter(postCount) " ";
+				counter-increment: postCount;
+				float: left;
+				margin-top: 15px;
+				color: #C6C6C6;
+				font-size: medium;
+				text-align: right;
+				font-family: arial;
+			}
+			#posts:first-child {
+				counter-reset: postCount;
+			}
+			#posts li {
+				margin: 0;
+				padding: 0;
+				padding-left: 3px;
+				margin-bottom: 8px;
+				clear:both;
+				overflow:auto;
+			}
+			li.hidden .votes, li.hidden .thumblink, li.hidden .link, li.hidden .domain, li.hidden .meta, li.hidden .actions *:not(.hide){
+				opacity: 0.4;
+			}
+			.votes {
+				float: left;
+				margin-right: 4px;
+				margin-left: 7px;
+				font-size: small;
+				width: 5ex;
+				overflow: hidden;
+				font-weight: bold;
+			}
+			.upmod, .downmod {
+				margin: 2px 0px 0px 0px;
+				width: 100%;
+				height: 14px;
+				display: block;
+				cursor: pointer;
+				background-position: center center;
+				background-repeat: no-repeat;
+				width: 15px;
+				margin-left: auto;
+				margin-right: auto;
+				background-image: url('sprite.png');
+			}
+			.upmod {
+				background-position: -4px -271px;
+			}
+			li[data-dir='1'] .upmod {
+				background-position: -4px -227px;
+			}
+			.downmod {
+				background-position: -4px -293px;
+			}
+			li[data-dir='-1'] .downmod {
+				background-position: -4px -249px;
+			}
+			.count {
+				text-align: center;
+				color: #C6C6C6;
+				display: block;
+			}
+			.thumblink {
+				float: left;
+				margin: 0px 5px;
+				overflow: hidden;
+				width: 70px;
+			}
+			.post {
+				overflow: hidden;
+				margin-left: 3px;
+			}
+			.link {
+				font-size: medium;
+				font-weight: normal;
+				margin-bottom: 1px;
+			}
+			.domain {
+				color: #888;
+				font-size: x-small;
+			}
+			.meta {
+				color: #888;
+				font-size: x-small;
+			}
+			.meta a {
+				color: #369;
+			}
+			.actions a {
+				color: #888;
+				font-weight: bold;
+				padding: 0 4px;
+			}
+			.actions a:first-child {
+				padding-left:0;
+			}
+			.morelink {
+			 display:block;
+			 text-align:center;
+			 position:relative;
+			 -moz-border-radius-topleft:6px;
+			 -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:6px;
+			 border:1px solid #c4dbf1;
+			 background:white none repeat-x scroll center left;
+			 background-image:url('gradient-button.png');
+			 font-size:150%;
+			 font-weight:bold;
+			 letter-spacing:-1px;
+			 line-height:29px;
+			 height:29px;
+			}
+			.morelink:hover, .mlh {
+			 border-color:#879eb4;
+			 background-image:url('gradient-button-hover.png');
+			}
+			.morelink a {
+			 display:block;
+			 width:100%;
+			 color:#369;
+			}
+			.morelink:hover a {
+			 color:white;
+			}
+			.morelink .nub {
+			 position:absolute;
+			 top:-1px;
+			 right:-1px;
+			 height:31px;
+			 width:24px;
+			 background:white none no-repeat scroll center left;
+			 background-image:url('sprite.png');
+			 background-position:-4px -4px;
+			}
+			.morelink:hover .nub, .mlhn {
+			 background-image:url('sprite.png');
+			 background-position:-4px -43px;
+			}
+		</style>
+		<script>
+			chrome.windows.getCurrent(function(currWindow) {
+				chrome.tabs.getSelected(currWindow.id, function(currTab) {
+					processApi(JSON.parse(window.localStorage.getItem(currTab.url)).response);
+				});
+			});
+			function processApi(response) {
+				document.getElementById('posts').setAttribute('data-modhash',response.data.modhash);
+				document.getElementById('posts').setAttribute('data-url',response.data.children[0].data.url);
+				var children = response.data.children;
+				var now = new Date();
+				for(var i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
+					var data = children[i].data;
+					var entry = document.createElement('li');
+						entry.id = data.name;
+						if (data.likes === true)  entry.setAttribute('data-dir','1');
+						if (data.likes === null)  entry.setAttribute('data-dir','0');
+						if (data.likes === false) entry.setAttribute('data-dir','-1');
+						var votes = document.createElement('div');
+							votes.className = 'votes';
+							var upmod = document.createElement('a');
+								upmod.className = 'upmod';
+								upmod.addEventListener('click',upmodPost);
+								votes.appendChild(upmod);
+							var count = document.createElement('span');
+								count.className = 'count';
+								count.id = 'count_' + data.name;
+								count.innerHTML = data.score;
+								count.title = data.ups + ' up votes, ' + data.downs + ' down votes';
+								votes.appendChild(count);
+							var downmod = document.createElement('a');
+								downmod.className = 'downmod';
+								downmod.id = 'down_' + data.name;
+								votes.appendChild(downmod);
+							entry.appendChild(votes);
+						var thumblink = document.createElement('a');
+							thumblink.className = 'thumblink';
+							thumblink.href = 'http://www.reddit.com' + data.permalink;
+							thumblink.target = '_blank';
+							thumblink.title = 'View this submission on reddit';
+							var thumb = document.createElement('img');
+								thumb.className = 'thumb';
+								data.thumbnail.indexOf('/') === 0 ? thumb.src = 'http://www.reddit.com' + data.thumbnail : thumb.src = data.thumbnail;
+								thumb.alt = data.title;
+								thumblink.appendChild(thumb);
+							entry.appendChild(thumblink);
+						var post = document.createElement('div');
+							post.className = 'post';
+							var link = document.createElement('a');
+								link.className = 'link';
+								link.href = 'http://www.reddit.com' + data.permalink;
+								link.target = '_blank';
+								link.innerHTML = data.title;
+								link.title = 'View this submission on reddit';
+								post.appendChild(link);
+							var space = document.createTextNode(' ');
+								post.appendChild(space);
+							var domain = document.createElement('a');
+								domain.className = 'domain';
+								domain.href = 'http://www.reddit.com/domain/' + data.domain + '/';
+								domain.target = '_href';
+								domain.innerHTML = '(' + data.domain + ')';
+								post.appendChild(domain);
+							var meta = document.createElement('div');
+								meta.className = 'meta';
+								var timestamp = document.createElement('span');
+									timestamp.className = 'timestamp';
+									timestamp.innerHTML = 'submitted ' + prettyDate(ISODateString(new Date(data.created_utc * 1000)));
+									meta.appendChild(timestamp);
+								var by = document.createTextNode(' by ');
+									meta.appendChild(by);
+								var submitter = document.createElement('a');
+									submitter.className = 'submitter';
+									submitter.href = 'http://www.reddit.com/user/' + data.author + '/';
+									submitter.target = '_blank';
+									submitter.innerHTML = data.author;
+									meta.appendChild(submitter);
+								var to = document.createTextNode(' to ');
+									meta.appendChild(to);
+								var subreddit = document.createElement('a');
+									subreddit.className = 'subreddit';
+									subreddit.href = 'http://www.reddit.com/r/' + data.subreddit + '/';
+									subreddit.target = '_blank';
+									subreddit.innerHTML = data.subreddit;
+									meta.appendChild(subreddit);
+								post.appendChild(meta);
+							var actions = document.createElement('div');
+								actions.className = 'actions';
+								var comments = document.createElement('a');
+									comments.className = 'comments';
+									comments.href = 'http://www.reddit.com' + data.permalink;
+									comments.target = '_blank';
+									comments.innerHTML = data.num_comments + ' comments';
+									actions.appendChild(comments);
+								post.appendChild(actions);
+								var share = document.createElement('a');
+									share.className = 'share';
+									share.innerHTML = 'share';
+									actions.appendChild(share);
+								var save = document.createElement('a');
+									save.className = 'save';
+									save.innerHTML = data.saved === true ? 'saved' : 'save';
+									actions.appendChild(save);
+								var hide = document.createElement('a');
+									hide.className = 'hide';
+									if(data.hidden === true) {
+										entry.className += ' hidden';
+										hide.innerHTML = 'unhide'
+									} else {
+										hide.innerHTML = 'hide';
+									}
+									actions.appendChild(hide);
+								var report = document.createElement('a');
+									report.className = 'report';
+									report.innerHTML = 'report';
+									actions.appendChild(report);
+							entry.appendChild(post);
+						document.getElementById('posts').appendChild(entry);
+				}
+				document.getElementById('submit').href = 'http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=' + encodeURI(document.getElementById('posts').getAttribute('data-url'));
+			}
+			
+			function upmodPost() {
+				var formData = new FormData();
+				formData.append('id',this.parentNode.parentNode.id);
+				formData.append('uh',document.getElementById('posts').getAttribute('data-modhash'));
+				var voteWas = this.parentNode.parentNode.getAttribute('data-dir');
+				var voteCount = document.getElementById('count_' + this.parentNode.parentNode.id)
+				if(voteWas === '1') formData.append('dir','0');
+				if(voteWas === '0') formData.append('dir','1');
+				if(voteWas === '-1') formData.append('dir','1');
+				var api = new XMLHttpRequest();
+				api.open('POST','http://www.reddit.com/api/vote',false);
+				api.send(formData);
+				if (api.statusText === 'OK') {
+					if(voteWas === '1') {
+						this.parentNode.parentNode.setAttribute('data-dir','0');
+						voteCount.innerHTML --;
+					}
+					if(voteWas === '0') {
+						this.parentNode.parentNode.setAttribute('data-dir','1');
+						voteCount.innerHTML ++;
+					}
+					if(voteWas === '-1') {
+						this.parentNode.parentNode.setAttribute('data-dir','1');
+						voteCount.innerHTML ++;
+						voteCount.innerHTML ++;
+					}
+					voteCount.title = 'Voted!';
+					window.localStorage.removeItem(document.getElementById('posts').getAttribute('data-url'));
+					// 	TODO:
+					//  Since I'm removing the data from the cache after voting, I need to add a
+					//  message passing function so that if the url isn't in the cache when the
+					//  popup is invoked, background.html will request the data and cache it so
+					//  the popup can read it.
+				} else {
+					console.error('Error voting.\n' + api.statusText);
+					console.warn(api);
+					return false;
+				}
+			}
+			
+			
+			/*
+			 * JavaScript Pretty Date
+			 * Thanks to Dean Landolt's comment on
+			 * http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-pretty-date/#postcomment
+			 */
+			// Takes an ISO time and returns a string representing how
+			// long ago the date represents.
+			function prettyDate(date_str){
+			  var time = ('' + date_str).replace(/-/g,"/").replace(/[TZ]/g," ");
+			  var seconds = (new Date - new Date(time)) / 1000;
+			  var token = 'ago', list_choice = 1;
+			  if (seconds < 0) {
+				seconds = Math.abs(seconds);
+				token = 'from now';
+				list_choice = 2;
+			  }
+			  var i = 0, format;
+			  while (format = time_formats[i++]) if (seconds < format[0]) {
+				if (typeof format[2] == 'string')
+				  return format[list_choice];
+				else
+				  return Math.floor(seconds / format[2]) + ' ' + format[1] + ' ' + token;
+			  }
+			  return time;
+			};
+			var time_formats = [
+			  [60, 'just now', 1], // 60
+			  [120, '1 minute ago', '1 minute from now'], // 60*2
+			  [3600, 'minutes', 60], // 60*60, 60
+			  [7200, '1 hour ago', '1 hour from now'], // 60*60*2
+			  [86400, 'hours', 3600], // 60*60*24, 60*60
+			  [172800, 'yesterday', 'tomorrow'], // 60*60*24*2
+			  [604800, 'days', 86400], // 60*60*24*7, 60*60*24
+			  [1209600, 'last week', 'next week'], // 60*60*24*7*4*2
+			  [2419200, 'weeks', 604800], // 60*60*24*7*4, 60*60*24*7
+			  [4838400, 'last month', 'next month'], // 60*60*24*7*4*2
+			  [29030400, 'months', 2419200], // 60*60*24*7*4*12, 60*60*24*7*4
+			  [58060800, 'last year', 'next year'], // 60*60*24*7*4*12*2
+			  [2903040000, 'years', 29030400], // 60*60*24*7*4*12*100, 60*60*24*7*4*12
+			  [5806080000, 'last century', 'next century'], // 60*60*24*7*4*12*100*2
+			  [58060800000, 'centuries', 2903040000] // 60*60*24*7*4*12*100*20, 60*60*24*7*4*12*100
+			];
+			
+			/*
+			 * ISO 8601 Formatted Dates
+			 * Gotten from the Mozilla Developer Center
+			 */
+			function ISODateString(d){
+			 function pad(n){return n<10 ? '0'+n : n}
+			 return d.getUTCFullYear()+'-'
+				  + pad(d.getUTCMonth()+1)+'-'
+				  + pad(d.getUTCDate())+'T'
+				  + pad(d.getUTCHours())+':'
+				  + pad(d.getUTCMinutes())+':'
+				  + pad(d.getUTCSeconds())+'Z'}
+		</script>
+	</head>
+	<body>
+		<ol id="posts">
+			
+		</ol>
+		<div class="morelink">
+			<a id="submit" target="_blank">Submit this link again</a>
+			<div class="nub"></div>
+		</div>
+	</body>
+</html>
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+// UNSAVE
+Request URL:http://www.reddit.com/api/unsave
+Request Method:POST
+Form Data:
+	id:t3_i0jf9
+	executed:unsaved
+	r:blog
+	uh:z59wa0u7v99260aa07baf45a198ac9434c5472f353f64dec22
+	renderstyle:html
+
+// SAVE
+Request URL:http://www.reddit.com/api/save
+Request Method:POST
+Form Data:
+	id:t3_i0jf9
+	executed:saved
+	r:blog
+	uh:1omqs0c192e8af3ad69b008c7de53875a6247774fc08173f07
+	renderstyle:html
+
+// SEARCH REDDIT NAMES
+Request URL:http://www.reddit.com/api/search_reddit_names
+Request Method:POST
+Form Data:
+	query:rp
+	uh:zvs6d0sz4he44b5174238157140615b04be2d0185a5a9b4879
+	renderstyle:html
+
+// IDEAS
+How about parsing imgur to look for direct AND imgur links?
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