bookmarks

The WebExtensions bookmarks API lets an extension interact with and manipulate the browser's bookmarking system. You can use it to bookmark pages, retrieve existing bookmarks, and edit, remove, and organize bookmarks.

To use this API, an extension must request the "bookmarks" permission in its manifest.json file.

Types

bookmarks.BookmarkTreeNodeUnmodifiable
A String enum which specifies why a bookmark or folder is unmodifiable.
bookmarks.BookmarkTreeNode
Represents a bookmark or folder in the bookmarks tree.
bookmarks.CreateDetails
Contains information which is passed to the bookmarks.create() function when creating a new bookmark.

Functions

bookmarks.create()
Creates a bookmark or folder.
bookmarks.get()
Retrieves one or more BookmarkTreeNodes, given a bookmark's ID or an array of bookmark IDs.
bookmarks.getChildren()
Retrieves the children of the specified BookmarkTreeNode.
bookmarks.getRecent()
Retrieves a requested number of recently added bookmarks.
bookmarks.getSubTree()
Retrieves part of the bookmarks tree, starting at the specified node.
bookmarks.getTree()
Retrieves the entire bookmarks tree into an array of BookmarkTreeNode objects.
bookmarks.move()
Moves the specified BookmarkTreeNode to a new location in the bookmark tree.
bookmarks.remove()
Removes a bookmark or an empty bookmark folder, given the node's ID.
bookmarks.removeTree()
Recursively removes a bookmark folder; that is, given the ID of a folder node, removes that node and all its descendants.
bookmarks.search()
Searches for BookmarkTreeNodes matching a specified set of criteria.
bookmarks.update()
Updates the title and/or URL of a bookmark, or the name of a bookmark folder, given the bookmark's ID.

Events

bookmarks.onCreated
Fired when a bookmark or folder is created.
bookmarks.onRemoved
Fired when a bookmark or folder is removed. When a folder is removed recursively, a single notification is fired for the folder, and none for its contents.
bookmarks.onChanged
Fired when a bookmark or folder changes. Currently, only title and url changes trigger this.
bookmarks.onMoved
Fired when a bookmark or folder is moved to a different parent folder or to a new offset within its folder.
bookmarks.onChildrenReordered
Fired when the user has sorted the children of a folder in the browser's UI. This is not called as a result of a move().
bookmarks.onImportBegan
Fired when a bookmark import session is begun. Expensive observers should ignore bookmarks.onCreated updates until bookmarks.onImportEnded is fired. Observers should still handle other notifications immediately.
bookmarks.onImportEnded
Fired when a bookmark import session has finished.

Browser compatibility

ChromeEdgeFirefoxFirefox for AndroidOpera
BookmarkTreeNodeYesNo45NoYes
BookmarkTreeNodeUnmodifiableYesNo45NoYes
CreateDetailsYesNo45NoYes
createYes1545NoYes
getYesNo45NoYes
getChildrenYesNo45NoYes
getRecentYesNo47NoYes
getSubTreeYesNo45NoYes
getTreeYes1545NoYes
moveYes1545NoYes
onChangedYesNo52NoYes
onChildrenReorderedYesNoNoNoYes
onCreatedYesNo52NoYes
onImportBeganYesNoNoNoYes
onImportEndedYesNoNoNoYes
onMovedYesNo52NoYes
onRemovedYesNo52NoYes
removeYes1545NoYes
removeTreeYes1547NoYes
searchYesNo47NoYes
updateYes1545NoYes

Edge incompatibilities

Promises are not supported in Edge. Use callbacks instead.

Chrome incompatibilities

None.

Example extensions

Acknowledgements

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

Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

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