I'm trying to modify a chrome extension which uploads images to Picasa and labels them with the complete URL e.g. www.domain.com/whatever.jpg, of where they were uploaded from.

I'm having problems with getting the complete URL. When i try the following bit of code, it gives me an incomplete URL with only the whatever.jpg, and not the www.domain.com/

...
chrome.tabs.getSelected(null, function(tab) {
var yourell = tab.url;
...

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Dave

Answer

Use

chrome.tabs.query

chrome.tabs.getSelected has been deprecated. To get the full URL of the currently active tab you will want to use the chrome.tabs.query function and do something like this

Example

manifest.json

{
    "name": "Get Current Open Tab Info Example",
    "manifest_version": 2,
    "version": "0.1",
    "description": "How to get info on the current tab on the active window in chrome.",
    "background": {
        "scripts": ["background.js"]
    },
    "browser_action": {
        "default_title": "test"
    },
    "permissions": [
        "tabs"
    ]
}

background.js

chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) {
    chrome.tabs.query({
        active: true,
        currentWindow: true
    }, function(tab) {
        console.log(tab[0]);
        console.log(tab[0].url);
    });
});

Running Example Screenshots

Load example extension

Clicking extension button with browser window opened to exampley.com
Console log of extension popup

Example files http://mikegrace.s3.amazonaws.com/stackoverflow/current-tab.zip