runtime.getURL()
Given a relative path from the manifest.json to a resource packaged with the extension, return a fully-qualified URL.
This function does not check that the resource actually exists at that URL.
Syntax
browser.runtime.getURL(
path // string
)
Parameters
path
-
string
. A relative path from the manifest.json to a resource packaged with the extension.
Return value
string
. The fully-qualified URL to the resource.
Browser compatibility
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Examples
Given a file packaged with the extension at "beasts/frog.html", get the full URL like this:
let fullURL = browser.runtime.getURL("beasts/frog.html");
console.log(fullURL);
// Returns something like:
// moz-extension://2c127fa4-62c7-7e4f-90e5-472b45eecfdc/beasts/frog.html
Example extensions
Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.runtime
API. This documentation is derived from runtime.json
in the Chromium code.
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