I want to get current tab URL without tabs permission and just activeTab permission

[James Akpan]

Please how can I get the current active tab url when a user click on a button on my extension without using the tabs permission or webNavigation permission and not using host_permissions too. Thanks! 

[Patrick Kettner]

What kind of button? Like the browser_action icon in the toolbar?

On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 5:10 PM James Akpan <ja...@mosaiqlabs.com> wrote:

Please how can I get the current active tab url when a user click on a button on my extension without using the tabs permission or webNavigation permission and not using host_permissions too. Thanks! 

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[Simeon Vincent]

Sounds like you want the activeTab permission. Once you declare it in your extension's manifest, you can access a tab's URL when the user invokes your extensions. For example:

chrome.action.onClicked.addListener((tab) => {

console.log(tab.url);

})

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[James Akpan]

Thanks sooo much for replying. But I have an error still. Or more like NOTHING happens. 
This is what my function looks like; 

const startSavingNewArticle = () => {

console.log("getting here")

chrome.action.onClicked.addListener((tab) => {

console.log(tab.url);

});

What do you think could cause the console not to run? 
I have the permissions set. I am calling this in a func not my background.

[wOxxOm]

chrome.action.onClicked makes sense in the background script (MV3 service worker), assuming of course you actually call the containing function and do it in the first turn of the event loop. If this code is in the popup then it won't do anything and is not necessary. Note that the popup is a separate window so it has its own separate devtools and console: right-click inside the popup and select "inspect" in the menu.