Get current URL with Chrome extension

Question

I'm trying to write a Chrome extension that will display the URL of the page the user is on and send it to the server for a response.

So far I have tried to use chrome.tabs.getCurrent(), but I get uncaught TypeError in the getCurrent object.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Answer 1

You get an error because getCurrent returns the script tab, not the selected tab.

You should probably use getSelected as indicated by serg

Answer 2

Any reason you don't want to use getSelected()?

chrome.tabs.getSelected(windowId, function(tab) {
    alert("current:"+tab.url);
});

Answer 3

getSelected . :

    chrome.tabs.query({active: true}, function(tab) {
        // Do stuff here
    }