bookmarks.onCreated

Fired when a bookmark item (a bookmark or a folder) is created.

Syntax

js
browser.bookmarks.onCreated.addListener(listener)
browser.bookmarks.onCreated.removeListener(listener)
browser.bookmarks.onCreated.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. Returns true if it is listening, false otherwise.

addListener syntax

Parameters

listener

The function called when this event occurs. The function is passed these arguments:

id

string. The new bookmark item's ID.

bookmark

bookmarks.BookmarkTreeNode. Information about the new bookmark item.

Examples

js
function handleCreated(id, bookmarkInfo) {
  console.log(`New bookmark ID: ${id}`);
  console.log(`New bookmark URL: ${bookmarkInfo.url}`);
}
browser.bookmarks.onCreated.addListener(handleCreated);

Example extensions

Browser compatibility

Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.bookmarks API. This documentation is derived from bookmarks.json in the Chromium code.