chrome.topSites

Notes

The top sites module allows access to the top sites that are displayed on the new tab page.

You must declare the "topSites" permission in your extension's manifest to use this API.

{
  "name": "My extension",
  ...
  "permissions": [
    "topSites",
  ],
  ...
}

You can find samples of this API in Samples.

( object )

An object encapsulating a most visited URL, such as the URLs on the new tab page.

chrome.topSites.get(function callback)

Gets a list of top sites.

The callback parameter should specify a function that looks like this:

function(array of MostVisitedURL data) {...};

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