Hi everyone,

I'm writing an is.gd extension for Chrome. (Yes, I'm aware that a Bit.ly extension already exists, I'm doing this for various reasons; fun, a preference for is.gd over bit.ly, etc).

My problem is this: When trying to get the url of the current visible tab, i get "chrome-extension://gckiclhecgkgapklkfibjpcdhcadcgpc/isgd_toolstrip.html".

The js I'm using is

Code:

<div class="toolstrip-button" onclick="chrome.tabs.create({url:'http://is.gd/create.php?longurl=' + window.location.href})">

Anyone know of a workaround?

My simple video grabber uses the Tabs API get function, which returns a tab structure that contains the URL. There's some code here.

You can use the location object from a Content Script to get the page's location. When using it from a Background Page or Toolstrip you only get the location object for those pages (since they are their own pages).
So for those, yeah, use the Tab API Michael linked.