When a deprecated URL is entered in Chrome it should be changed to an updated URL based on a regular expression or similar.
I would like to do the following
But I don't know if it is even possible. Any hint on where to look?
Modified from the related answer
chrome.tabs.getSelected(null, function (tab){
var tabUrl = tab.url;
// First parameter is the regex, second one is the replacement.
tabUrl = tabUrl.replace(/([abcde])+/g, "$1");
chrome.tabs.update(tab.id, {url: tabUrl});
});
Note that I don't really know much about Chrome development, but I do know about JavaScript, so this would likely work.
The chosen solution were to develop a small extension for chrome, which inserts a button next to the address bar.
The primary code is given below.
manifest.json
{
"name": "My First Extension",
"version": "1.0",
"description": "The first extension that I made.",
"background_page": "dostuff.html",
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "icon.png"
},
"permissions": [
"tabs", "http://*.google.com/", "https://*.google.com/" ]
}
dostuff.html
<html>
<script>
var sciencedirectold = /sciencedirect.com\//;
var sciencedirectnew = "sciencedirect.com.proxy1-bib.sdu.dk:2048/";
function updateUrl(tab){
if(tab.url.match(sciencedirectold))
{
var newurl = tab.url.replace(sciencedirectold, sciencedirectnew);
chrome.tabs.update(tab.id, {url: newurl});
}
}
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) {updateUrl(tab);});
</script>
</html>