bookmarks.onCreated

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

Syntax

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

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

browser.bookmarks.onCreated.addListener(handleCreated);

Example extensions

bookmark-it

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

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