history.deleteUrl()

Removes all visits to the given URL from the browser history.

This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise.

Syntax

var deletingUrl = browser.history.deleteUrl(
  details         // object
)

Parameters

details
object. Object containing the URL whose visits to remove.
url
string. The URL whose visits should be removed.

Return value

A Promise will be fulfilled with no parameters when the visits have been removed.

Browser compatibility

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deleteUrl
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Examples

Remove all visits to "https://example.org/" from history, then check that this URL no longer returned from history.search():

var urlToRemove = "https://example.org/";

function onGot(results) {
  if (!results.length) {
    console.log(urlToRemove  + " was removed");
  } else {
    console.log(urlToRemove  + " was not removed");
  }
}

function onRemoved() {
  var searching = browser.history.search({
    text: urlToRemove,
    startTime: 0
  });

  searching.then(onGot);
}

var deletingUrl = browser.history.deleteUrl({url: urlToRemove});

deletingUrl.then(onRemoved);

Remove the last-visited page from history, with a listener to history.onVisitRemoved to log the URL of the removed page:

function onRemoved(removeInfo) {
  if (removeInfo.urls.length) {
    console.log("Removed: " + removeInfo.urls[0]);
  }
}

browser.history.onVisitRemoved.addListener(onRemoved);

function onGot(results) {
  if (results.length) {
    console.log("Removing: " + results[0].url);
    browser.history.deleteUrl({url: results[0].url});
  }
}

var searching = browser.history.search({
  text: "",
  startTime: 0,
  maxResults: 1
});

searching.then(onGot);

Example extensions

Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.history API. This documentation is derived from history.json in the Chromium code.

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