I’m experimenting with edge extensions , I’m trying to make one that reads the URL of the current tab, removes the string ‘%0A’ and then redirects to the cleaned URL, but I dont know how to read the current tab URL, I found how to do it in chrome:
chrome.tabs.query({active: true, currentWindow: true}, function(tabs) { // print object for debugging console.log(JSON.stringify(tabs[0])); // get active tab url var activeTab = tabs[0]; var activeTabURL = activeTab.url; alert(activeTabURL) });but It doesnt seem to work for Edge, I have the permission for ‘tabs’ set in my manifest. Hope you can help me out
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Answer
I suggest you refer to an example below that may help you to get the URL of the current tab from the Edge browser extension.
manifest.json:
{ "name": "Hello World", "version": "2.0.0", "description": "Simple Microsoft Edge Extension", "manifest_version": 2, "author": "abc", "icons": { "16": "icons/icon_16.png" }, "browser_action": { "default_popup": "background.html", "default_title": "Hello World" }, "permissions": [ "tabs", "<all_urls>" ], "background": { "page": "background.html", "persistent": true }, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["http://*/*", "https://*/*"], "css" : ["light.css"], "js": ["js/content.js"], "run_at": "document_end" } ]}background.html:
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <title>demo</title> </head><body> <div> <h3>Click the button to get the page URL<h3><br> <button id="btn1">click me</button> <input type="text" id="txt1" style="width:300px"> </div><script type="text/javascript" src="js/background.js"></script></body></html>background.js:
var btn= document.getElementById("btn1");btn.addEventListener("click", function(){ abc();});function abc(){ chrome.tabs.query({active: true, lastFocusedWindow: true}, function(tabs) { var tab = tabs[0]; document.getElementById("txt1").value= tab.url; });}The extension file structure looks like below. You can create other files by yourself(like CSS files etc).
Test result with the MS Edge 89.0.774.45:
Further, you can try to modify the code of the extension as per your own requirements.
Thanks for your understanding.