Get the extension’s manifest.json file as an object. The object is created from browser-internal data structures and can differ from a representation produced by running JSON.parse() on the file in the extension.

Syntax

browser.runtime.getManifest()

Parameters

None.

Return value

An object representing the manifest.

Examples

Get the manifest and log the “name” property:

let manifest = browser.runtime.getManifest();
console.log(manifest.name);

Browser compatibility

See also

• The method, which returns the value of the version manifest key.

This API is based on Chromium’s chrome.runtime API. This documentation is derived from runtime.json in the Chromium code.