How to get browsing history using history API in Chrome extension

Question

How can I get the URLs of recently visited tabs using chrome.history API, specifically, the last 10 URLs visited?

Answer 1

Pass an empty string as your query to the search() method of the chrome.history API. For example, this will log the 10 most recently visited URLs to the console:

chrome.history.search({text: '', maxResults: 10}, function(data) {
    data.forEach(function(page) {
        console.log(page.url);
    });
});