chrome.* APIs

Chrome provides many special-purpose APIs like chrome.runtime and chrome.alarms to packaged apps.

Chrome provides APIs such as chrome.bookmarks and chrome.tab so that extensions can interact with the browser.

Supported APIs

Here are the supported chrome.* APIs:

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Experimental APIs

Chrome also has experimental APIs, some of which will become supported APIs in future releases of Chrome.

API conventions

Unless the doc says otherwise, methods in the chrome.* APIs are asynchronous: they return immediately, without waiting for the operation to finish. If you need to know the outcome of an operation, then you pass a callback function into the method. For more information, watch this video: