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Get the current URL of the selected Chrome tab. Useful for Chrome/Chromium extensions.
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| /* | |
| * Get the current URL of the selected Chrome tab. Call to getCurrent | |
| * By Javier Santos | |
| * https://gist.github.com/javiersantos/c3e9ae2adba72e898f99 | |
| */ | |
| var currentURL; | |
| chrome.tabs.query({'active': true, 'windowId': chrome.windows.WINDOW_ID_CURRENT}, | |
| function(tabs){ | |
| getCurrentURL(tabs[0].url); | |
| }); | |
| function getCurrentURL(tab){ | |
| currentURL = tab; | |
| } |
It works just sometime. For example it does not work for zendesk.
chrome.tabs.getCurrent(tab => tab.url)
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/tabs/#method-getCurrent
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/tabs/#type-Tab
Add "tabs" permission to the manifest
Does not work in v3
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Its not working. This is not for the background.js right?