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

So far I have been trying to use chrome.tabs.getCurrent(), but I get uncaught TypeError on the getCurrent object.

Is there an easy way for doing this?

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

So far I have been trying to use chrome.tabs.getCurrent(), but I get uncaught TypeError on the getCurrent object.

Is there an easy way for doing this?

• javascript
• google-chrome-extension

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

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

getSelected is deprecated. The preferred way to access the current tab is:

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

You are getting the error because getCurrent returns the tab the script is running on, not the tab that is currently selected.

You should probably be using getSelected as noted by serg