balta2ar
Brotab list gives empty set
Hey, Yuri, I just installed brotab on a Debian system via pip install which installed brotab 1.3.0. Run bt install I then downloaded the Firefox brotab extension. then: bt list
root@debian1:/home/user1# brotab install Installing mediator manifest /root/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/brotab_mediator.json Installing mediator manifest /root/.config/chromium/NativeMessagingHosts/brotab_mediator.json Installing mediator manifest /root/.config/google-chrome/NativeMessagingHosts/brotab_mediator.json Installing mediator manifest /root/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/NativeMessagingHosts/brotab_mediator.json Link to Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brotab/ Link to Chrome (Chromium)/Brave extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/brotab/mhpeahbikehnfkfnmopaigggliclhmnc/ root@debian1:/home/user1# bt list
root@debian1:/home/user1# bt list
root@debian1:/home/user1# bt clients root@debian1:/home/user1#
I then (now at home) refreshed everything on my SuSE system following the same steps as above. That's how it looks at home:
n@linux-mn62:~> bt list a.1.1 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ a.1.3 16 Best Sites to Download Free Ebooks https://www.fossmint.com/ a.1.4 Logout | IONOS by 1&1 https://www.ionos.de/ a.1.2 Home https://www.foerderverein-stadtbibliothek-rottenburg.de/index.php/de/home a.1.5 Förderverein Stadtbibliothek Rottenburg - Administration https://www.foerderverein-stadtbibliothek-rottenburg.de a.1.6 http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/cdstub/?query= a.1.7 http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/cdstub/?query= a.1.8 Kundencenter - goneo https://kundencenter.goneo.de/ a.1.9 ierusalimschy LUA - MetaGer https://metager.de/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe=ierusalimschy+LUA a.1.10 Programming in Lua (first edition) http://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html
The difference between the 2 installs: on Debian I worked as root. What's happening here? Any Explanations?
Greetings Martin
Did you run Firefox as root on Debian as well? I assume you didn't, and that you use a regular user with Firefox. Firefox needs to run the mediator app, and since you installed it as root, Firefox can't run it. I suggest you install brotab as the same user that runs Firefox (pip3 install --user brotab).
Hi @balta2ar,
I have exactly the same problem as @fmartin2912, but I installed it with --user option and I am running Firefox as this regular user, so I don't think it is due to rights. I am running it on WIN10 for firefox and chrome, but no clients after "bt clients" ever appear, no output after list, words is displayed... Can it be, that I run "bt commands" from some cache in \AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts? But I did not find the file bt.exe anywhere else...
Can you please be more specific, from where I can run these bt commands?
Thank you
Petr
I have this problem as well on windows 10. I did bt install and installed addon to firefox but all i get is empty when i do bt clients and bt list
I have this issue as well, but do not have the issue follow on Chrome. I can see Chrome tabs, not not any trace of Firefox. I installed using pip3 install --user brotab
I have this problem as well on windows 10. I did bt install and installed addon to firefox but all i get is empty when i do bt clients and bt list
I initially had a similar issue, because it (for some reason) did not set an entry in the registry telling firefox where the mediator program is. For any having this issue on windows, I would suggest using regedit to look and see if there is a registry entry at Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mozilla\NativeMessagingHosts\brotab_mediator , and if not, create one, with as content, the full path to the brotab_mediator.json file.
( https://github.com/balta2ar/brotab/issues/64 for more information about the issue I encountered and how I solved it in my case)
I was having this issue as well, but in my case the registry keys were set correctly. After seeing the bt_mediator executable in the Python3xx/Scripts directory, I checked if that process was running and had any ports open with netstat. Since no processes were running, I decided to run the bt_mediator manually.
When I ran bt_mediator, I got the following error:
cannot import name 'url_quote' from 'werkzeug.urls'
Same error when I ran flask as well.
A quick Google search took me to this SO answer which helped me fix the problem:
The issue seems to be with the Flask's requirements for Werkzeug. (requirements state Werkzeug>=2.2.0)
When installing with pip install --user brotab it seems to have installed Flask 2.2.2 and Werkzeug 3.0.0 which technically satisfies the Flask requirement but flask==2.2.2 doesn't seem to be compatible with Werkzeug==3.0.0
TLDR:
Running pip install --user Werkzeug==2.2.2 fixed my issue (had to restart the browsers to autostart the bt_mediator process)
Hope this helps someone! This is an absolutely awesome tool!
