Capture text selection in Google Docs

Question

I\'m writing a Chrome extension that captures the user text selection and sends the selected text to Google search.

manifest.json

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Answer 1

You can get this from the context menu. I bet you'll be adding a context menu item anyway.

chrome.contextMenus.create({
   id:"g-search",
   title:"Search %s",
   contexts:["selection"]
});

chrome.contextMenus.onClicked.addListener(function(sel){
   console.log(sel.selectionText);
});