history.onVisited
Fired each time the user visits a page. A history.HistoryItem
object is passed to the listener. This event fires before the page has loaded.
Syntax
js
browser.history.onVisited.addListener(listener)
browser.history.onVisited.removeListener(listener)
browser.history.onVisited.hasListener(listener)
Events have three functions:
addListener(listener)
-
Adds a listener to this event.
removeListener(listener)
-
Stop listening to this event. The
listener
argument is the listener to remove. hasListener(listener)
-
Check whether
listener
is registered for this event. Returnstrue
if it is listening,false
otherwise.
addListener syntax
Parameters
listener
-
The function called when this event occurs. The function is passed this argument:
result
-
history.HistoryItem
. An object representing the item in the browser's history.At the time that this event is sent, the browser doesn't yet know the title of the page. If the browser has visited this page before and has remembered its old title, then the
HistoryItem.title
object will contain the old title of the page. If the browser doesn't have a record of the page's old title, thenHistoryItem.title
will be empty. To get the titles of pages as soon as they are known, listen forhistory.onTitleChanged
.
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
Examples
Listen for visits, and log the URL and visit time.
js
function onVisited(historyItem) {
console.log(historyItem.url);
console.log(new Date(historyItem.lastVisitTime));
}
browser.history.onVisited.addListener(onVisited);
Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.history
API. This documentation is derived from history.json
in the Chromium code.