Google Chrome Extension Hello World

Question

I am going through the "Hello World" example on the Chrome dev pages (http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/getstarted.html).

One thing I would like to do is to be able to grab the current selected tabs location.href and document.title.

For example if I am on www.apple.com and click the popup toolbar button I'm not sure how to access the www.apple.com document.

Answer 1

From what "parts" of the extension?

E.g. An extension's "background page"?
The "tab" object contain the "url" (location.href in DOM terms ) parameter.

You'll have to communication between a "content script" and the background page. Once you have a communication channel, you can grab the tab_id and refer to #1 above.

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You can always grab the current window/tab: have a look here. You can grab the tab_id.url from thereon.