Cant generate JSON from localhost address

[Webrow]

As I am developping locally Id like sometimes like to export designs from there. When I click the plugin, no "Download" is started, or JSON is created. (it works on other pages). Any debug I can check or look into?

[steve8708]

Hey @Webrow - are you using the figma plugin or the chrome extension to grab your content from localhost?

[Webrow]

Yes correct! I installed the chrome extension, go to local served host and try to export it, but no JSON is being generated (no download triggered and no tab)

[Webrow]

@steve8708 Not to bump, but is there any debugging you'd like me to do to look into this?

[steve8708]

Yeah, two things I'd love to find out

• do you get any errors in the chrome devtools JS console? if so can you share?
• if you something like ngrok to make the host no longer localhost, does importing work?

[bradleytaftsmith]

hey @steve8708 I'm also running into the same behavior.

I get no output on JS console on chrometools (short video here)
I was unable to get the file shown there served simply using ngrok and didn't have time to troubleshoot it. getting the HTML I'm wanting into Figma hosted somewhere is a bit more than this is worth.

Hope this helps troubleshooting! I'd love to be able to import local HTML files for this work project, will continue to look for a work around.

[bradleytaftsmith]

I was able to work around the problem above by using npm http-server to serve my HTML page I wanted captured locally. I used homebrew to install npm, npm to install http-server, a http-server to serve the file to my browser. Then figma-html was able to handle it and export json as expected.