How to trigger a Chrome extension, content-script for a given hash in the URL?

Question

My matches scheme:

"content_scripts" : [
 {
   "matches" : [
     "https://stackoverflow.com/questions#epic*"
   ],
   "js" : ["silly.js"]
 }
],

So if the user went to a webpage (like https://stackoverflow.com/questions) then added #epic it would go to https://stackoverflow.com/questions#epic but would have #epic on the end of the URL, which would activate the content script silly.js.

That's what's supposed to happen, but that doesn't work.

Answer 1

See Content scripts, Match Patterns. Match patterns do not operate on the query nor the fragment portions of a URL.

To restrict a content script to a given hash, use the include_globs and/or exclude_globs properties.

For example, in this case you might use:

"content_scripts" :     [ {
    "matches" :         [
        "*://stackoverflow.com/questions/*"
    ],
    "include_globs" :   ["*#epic*"],
    "js" :              ["silly.js"]
} ],