downloads.onCreated

The onCreated() event of the downloads API fires when a download begins, i.e. when downloads.download() is sucessfully invoked.

The listener is passed the downloads.DownloadItem object in question as a parameter.

Syntax

browser.downloads.onCreated.addListener(listener)
browser.downloads.onCreated.removeListener(listener)
browser.downloads.onCreated.hasListener(listener)

Events have three functions:

addListener(callback)
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 a given listener is registered for this event. Returns true if it is listening, false otherwise.

addListener syntax

Parameters

function

A callback function that will be called when this event occurs. This function will be passed the following arguments:

downloadItem
The downloads.DownloadItem object in question.

Browser compatibility

ChromeEdgeFirefoxFirefox for AndroidOpera
Basic supportYesNo4848Yes

Examples

Log the URL of items as they are downloaded:

function handleCreated(item) {
  console.log(item.url);
}
browser.downloads.onCreated.addListener(handleCreated);

Acknowledgements

This API is based on Chromium's chrome.downloads API.

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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