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Accessing a new bookmarks' URL within a Chrome Extension

I've made a few Chrome extensions already but this has really stumped me.

I have an idea for an extension that adds additional information to a bookmark's URL when a user bookmarks a page. The simplest way to do this would using a hash tag on the end.

E.g. a.site.com/page/2/#extrainfohere

So in effect I want the extension to listen for when a user bookmarks a page, calculate some information e.g. scroll position, and append this to bookmarks URL as it is saved.

Does anyone have any clue is there is a way to do this? Any hook in Chrome that could be used to extend the default bookmarking action?

Thanks in advance

Solution

  • I think you need something like this:

    chrome.bookmarks.onCreated.addListener(
function(id, bookmark) {        
    var new_url = bookmark.url + "#somedata";
    chrome.bookmarks.update(id, {url : new_url}, function {});
});