I am trying to send a message from background script to content script in my chrome extension. But it looks like the message gets send before the content script is loaded?
This is the error I get when I am using my extension normally:
Uncaught (in promise) Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.
This is my background script with the tabs.onUpdated
function:
chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener((tabId, changeInfo, tab) => {
if (changeInfo.url) {
console.log(changeInfo.url, tabId)
chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tabId, {
url: changeInfo.url,
type: 'URL_CHANGE'
});
}
});
This is my content script receive function:
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener((obj, sender, response) => {
console.log('received', obj)
if (obj.type === 'URL_CHANGE') {
console.log('testestsetst')
getAuth()
getUrlType(obj.url)
} else if (obj.type === 'AUTH') {
getAuth()
} else if (obj.type === 'UN-AUTH') {
removeAuth()
}
});
Whenever I run the extension normally I don't see an output from my content script and I get the error as stated above. However, when I debug the background script and step through the code, I get no error and my content script prints everything correctly. Could this be due to the page needing to load? And if so, how do I solve this?
Solved it by checking for tab complete and sending the url through the tab parameter as follows:
chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener((tabId, changeInfo, tab) => {
if (changeInfo.status === 'complete') {
chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tabId, {
url: tab.url,
type: 'URL_CHANGE'
});
}
});