How to trigger a Chrome extension, content-script for a given hash in the URL?

content-script, google-chrome-extension, hashtag, javascript, manifest

Solution

See Content scripts, Match Patterns. Match patterns do not operate on the fragment portion of a URL.

To restrict a content script to a given hash, use the `include_globs` and/or `exclude_globs` properties.

For example, in this case you might use:

"content_scripts" :     [ {
    "matches" :         [
        "*://stackoverflow.com/questions/*"
    ],
    "include_globs" :   ["*#epic*"],
    "js" :              ["silly.js"]
} ],

Problem

My matches scheme: ``` "content_scripts" : [ { "matches" : [ "https://stackoverflow.com/questions#epic*" ], "js" : ["silly.js"] } ], ``` So if the user went to a webpage (like https://stackoverflow.com/questions) then added `#epic` it would go to https://stackoverflow.com/questions#epic but would have `#epic` on the end of the URL, which would activate the content script `silly.js`. That's what's supposed to happen, but that doesn't work.

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