Using these APIs you can not only read content from web pages but also write content to them and interact with these pages, like, for example, automatically pressing buttons or following links. The extension which we will create today will use Chrome APIs to get access to the content of web pages, which opened in a web browser and extract different information from them. In this article, I will show, how to create a Chrome Extension from scratch. Usually, to install a Chrome Extension, a user should open Chrome Web Store, find the required extension, and install it from there. Get information about the active browser tabĬhrome Extensions are small programs, that can be installed to Google Chrome web browser to enrich its features.
