Redirect URLs in Chrome?

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Score 34

I had built a Chrome extension which does this.

^{Note: I built this for just 2 sites - just for the heck of it - by no means it's professional quality™. Please don't flame me for crappy code :)}

Edit: Updated to manifest v2, which brings in certain additional restrictions.

manifest.json

{
  "name": "URL Redirect",
  "version": "0.2",
  "description": "Checks URL and redirects as required.",
  "background": { 
     "page":"bg.html"
     },
   "manifest_version": 2,
   "content_scripts": [
   {
     "matches": ["http://*/*", "https://*/*"],
     "js": ["content.js"]
   }
   ],
  "permissions": ["tabs"]
}

bg.html

<html>
  <script src="redirect.js"></script>
</html>

redirect.js

chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener(function(request, sender) {
        chrome.tabs.update(sender.tab.id, {url: request.redirect});
    });

content.js

var pattern=/\bBlocked/;
var viewtext_base_url = "http://viewtext.org/article?url=";
var newurl;
if (pattern.test(window.document.title)) // if it matches pattern defined above
{
  newurl = viewtext_base_url + encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
  chrome.extension.sendRequest({redirect: newurl}); // send message to redirect

}

To install this, create files with filenames as mentioned above the codeblock.

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Once all 3 files are created, Click on Chrome Menu → Tools → Extensions. Click the "+" on Developer Mode. Click on Load Unpacked extension and point to the directory where the files are stored.

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Edit the files are required, and uninstall and reinstall the extension as mentioned above

ANSWER 2

Score 20

I know I am a bit late in the game to answer this question Still I would like to answer this for future readers. Have a look at

Requestly - Open Source Chrome Extension to modify Network Requests.

Github Repo - https://github.com/requestly/requestly

Currently, You can set up rules for

Redirect a request URL to another url.
Block some requests.
Replace some part in the URL with another string. (Even the whole URL can be replaced)
Add/Remove/Modify Headers in HTTP(s) Request and Response. You can set up Header Modification Rules only for specified URLs now.

Screenshots for more understanding: