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BonjourHolaOla
BonjourHolaOla

Reputation: 135

Get Title of selected tab

Is there a way of getting the value of the title of the page from a Google Extension?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 15567

Answers (2)

hsiaomichiu
hsiaomichiu

Reputation: 602

Notice that the above method mentioned by CMS is deprecated since Chrome 33.

You don't really need to specify the tabs permission in your manifest file since what you're doing here isn't some advanced action. You can perform most of the tabs actions without specifying the permission; only for some certain methods will you need to.

The new way of querying the currently selected tab is by the following code:

chrome.tabs.query({ active: true }, function (tab) {
  // do some stuff here
});

This will give you the selected tabs in all windows, if you have multiple windows open. If you want to get only the selected tab in the current window, use the following:

chrome.tabs.query({ active: true, currentWindow: true }, function (tab) {
  // do some other fanciful stuff here
});

For more details, refer to https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabs#method-query

Upvotes: 2

Christian C. Salvadó
Christian C. Salvadó

Reputation: 827316

At first you should declare the tabs API permission in your manifest.json:

{
  "name": "My extension",
  ...
  "permissions": ["tabs"],
  ...
}

Then you will be able to use the tabs API, you are looking for the chrome.tabs.getSelected(windowId, callback) method.

To get the selected tab of the current window, you can simply pass null as the windowId.

This method will execute the callback function passing a Tab object as its first argument, where you can simply get the title property:

chrome.tabs.getSelected(null,function(tab) { // null defaults to current window
  var title = tab.title;
  // ...
});

Upvotes: 8

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