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.