Reload Chrome extension tabs

Question

Is there some way to get the tab id's of only the tabs that are part of my extension?

Answer 1

This really depends on what you mean by "part of my extension".

If you mean tabs that are displaying a page that is contained within your extension you can do the following;

chrome.tabs.query({}, function (tabs) {
  var myTabs = [];
  for (var i = 0; i < tabs.length; i++) {
    if (tabs[i].url.indexOf(chrome.extension.getURL('')) === 0) {
      myTabs.push(tabs[i].id);
    }
  }
  console.log(myTabs);
});

If you want to access the DOM of your tabs instead, it gets even easier;

var myTabs = chrome.extension.getViews({type: 'tab'});

With access to the DOM you can simply iterate of each view (DOMWindow) and refresh each page;

for (var i = 0; i < myTabs.length; i++) {
  myTabs[i].location.reload()
}