Question

I’m making a google chrome extension, and I need to get the current page URL and title. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

chrome.tabs.getSelected(null, function(tab) { //<-- "tab" has all the information
    console.log(tab.url);       //returns the url
    console.log(tab.title);     //returns the title
});

For more please read chrome.tabs. About the tab object, read here.

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Note: chrome.tabs.getSelected has been deprecated since Chrome 16. As the documentation has suggested, chrome.tabs.query() should be used along with the argument {'active': true} to select the active tab.

chrome.tabs.query({active: true, currentWindow: true}, function(tabs){
    tabs[0].url;     //url
    tabs[0].title;   //title
});