Adding CORS module - Solves Chrome extension API connectivity (#2236)

changedetectionio/flask_app.py

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ from flask_compress import Compress as FlaskCompress
 from flask_login import current_user
 from flask_paginate import Pagination, get_page_parameter
 from flask_restful import abort, Api
+from flask_cors import CORS
 from flask_wtf import CSRFProtect
 from loguru import logger
 
@@ -53,6 +54,9 @@ app = Flask(__name__,
             static_folder="static",
             template_folder="templates")
 
+# Enable CORS, especially useful for the Chrome extension to operate from anywhere
+CORS(app)
+
 # Super handy for compressing large BrowserSteps responses and others
 FlaskCompress(app)
 

requirements.txt

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ flask-login>=0.6.3
 flask-paginate
 flask_expects_json~=1.7
 flask_restful
+flask_cors # For the Chrome extension to operate
 flask_wtf~=1.2
 flask~=2.3
 inscriptis~=2.2