history.deleteUrl()

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

Syntax

chrome.history.deleteUrl(
  details,         // object
  function() {...} // optional function
)

This API is also available as browser.history.deleteUrl() in a version that returns a promise.

Parameters

details

object. Object containing the URL whose visits to remove.

url

string. The URL whose visits should be removed.

callbackOptional

function. Called, with no parameters, when the visits have been removed.

Browser compatibility

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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() {
  chrome.history.search({
    text: urlToRemove,
    startTime: 0
  }, onGot);
}

chrome.history.deleteUrl({url: urlToRemove}, 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]);
  }
}

chrome.history.onVisitRemoved.addListener(onRemoved);

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

chrome.history.search({
  text: "",
  startTime: 0,
  maxResults: 1
}, onGot);

Example add-ons

• history-deleter

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