event_rules

The event_rules manifest property provides a mechanism to add rules that intercept, block, or modify web requests in-flight using declarativeWebRequest or take actions depending on the content of a page, without requiring permission to read the page's content using declarativeContent.

# Translating rules from javascript to manifest

The following defines a rule to display a page action if the current page has a video css tag in javascript:

chrome.declarativeContent.onPageChanged.addRules([{
  actions: [
    new chrome.declarativeContent.ShowPageAction()
  ],
  conditions: [
    new chrome.declarativeContent.PageStateMatcher(
        {css: ["video"]}
    )
  ]
}]);

This is the same definition in the manifest:

{
  "name": "Sample extension",
  "event_rules": [{
    "event": "declarativeContent.onPageChanged",
    "actions": [{
      "type": "declarativeContent.ShowPageAction"
    }],
    "conditions": [{
      "type": "declarativeContent.PageStateMatcher",
      "css": ["video"]
    }]
  }],
  ...
}