Former2 Helper

Helps avoid CORS issues with former2.com

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Rating4.9

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Version1.67

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Size1.6MiB

Languages1English

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Calls to the AWS service API endpoints are made either directly with the JavaScript SDK or via the browser extension (which also hits endpoints directly). Recording data is kept entirely in memory or on local disk and is never sent over the internet or anywhere else. You should take care to remove any sensitive data (passwords etc.) when sharing your generated code/templates with others.

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CORS proxy helper for former2.com that executes AWS SDK API calls on behalf of the former2.com web application

Former2.com needs to call AWS API endpoints directly from the browser, but browser CORS policies block cross-origin requests to AWS. This extension acts as a proxy, using the bundled AWS SDK to make API requests that the website cannot make on its own.

User visits former2.com, provides their AWS credentials (access key, secret key, session token), former2.com sends API requests to the extension via chrome.runtime.sendMessage, the extension executes AWS SDK calls and returns the results (resource data), former2.com uses this data to generate IaC templates (CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.).

Target users: DevOps engineers and cloud architects using former2.com to generate Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.) from existing AWS resources / AWS users who want to reverse-engineer their existing infrastructure into code templates

Extension is minimal (only bg.js + bundled AWS SDK), making analysis straightforward with little ambiguity.
Cannot verify former2.com's current UI/workflow from extension source alone — relies on knowledge that former2.com is a free open-source tool with no account system.

Monetization

No paid features detected

The extension contains no payment logic, no billing APIs, no premium feature gating, no subscription checks, and no upgrade UI. The 'pro' keyword hits in static analysis are false positives — one is in the AWS SDK filename (aws-sdk-2.1519.0-sw.js) and the other is in the word 'properties' within a service constructor call (bg.js line 36). Former2.com is a free, open-source project. The extension is a simple CORS proxy helper with no monetization layer.

Confidence: 97
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: The extension itself has no login UI, no account system, and no authentication flow. It acts purely as a CORS proxy that receives requests from former2.com and executes AWS SDK calls. The user provides their own AWS credentials (access key, secret key, session token) as configuration input via the former2.com website (bg.js lines 12-16, 27-30), but this is not a login to the extension or to former2.com — it is the user's own AWS API credentials. Former2.com itself is a free, open-source tool with no user account system.

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Medium-risk permissions

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Publisher

Ian Mckay

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Email: [email protected]
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Address: ID 24175 / GPO Box 1171 Sydney, NSW 2001 Australia

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