API for Vivaldi ONLY features (tab groups, etc)

[kez1304]

Hi,

Loving Vivaldi!

As a long time fan of the Chrome extension Session Buddy, I was thrilled when I found that it would work on Vivaldi, and could even import all my old saved tabs just fine.

However, to really take advantage of Vivaldi's features (like tab grouping), it's (obviously) incompatible. I reload a ~50 tab, 4 window session, which was neatly organised before, and it just dumps all the tabs out, totally ignoring all the grouping, much like it was in Chrome.

This severely limits what I can actually do in Vivaldi, and this feature then becomes moot (if it's not going to save between saved sessions, then there's no point wasting time grouping things).

So I thought, "Hey! You're a web developer, why don't you just find their API hooks, and create a little extension to simply scan through the opened tabs, and re-group them as before!?"... But I can't seem to find an API anywhere for it.

I just really wanted to check to see if I'm being dumb, and there's a readthedocs.io, or github page out there with a reference manual, or that (as I fear), any and all of the lovely Vivaldi only special features that I'm learning to love can't realistically be modified, as they're locked away behind the compilation wall?

Many thanks!

[LonM]

@kez1304 Hi,

There is a API, but it's only for internal use within vivaldi itself.

It is built in exactly the same way as the chrome API, with calls and events under the vivaldi.* namespace, but extensions can't access it, only the Vivaldi program itself can.

As far as I know, there are no plans to make it publicly accessible to extensions.