I'm learning how to create chrome extensions and I want to add search params to a google search every time the user enters a new query. I have this loop within my contentScripts.js file and it is creating a infinite loop, so I added a conditional as seen in the code which solves it for when the users searches. However it still loops whenever the user is doing anything else on google.
Code:
const addCurrentSearch = () => {
const newUrl = 'https://www.google.com/search?q=in+2021+';
let currentURL = window.location.href;
let updatedSearch = currentURL.replace('https://www.google.com/search?q=', newUrl);
if(!currentURL.includes(newUrl)){
window.location.href = updatedSearch;
}};
That's because the code isn't checking for anything else. Not sure if this will fit your needs but its at least an improvement :)
const addCurrentSearch = () => {
const googleSearchPageUrl = 'https://www.google.com/search'
const newUrl = 'https://www.google.com/search?q=in+2021+';
let currentURL = window.location.href;
let updatedSearch = currentURL.replace('https://www.google.com/search?q=', newUrl);
if(!currentURL.includes(newUrl) && currentURL.includes(googleSearchPageUrl)){
window.location.href = updatedSearch;
}};
Now we are also checking if the user is on the google search page and the newUrl hasn't been applied