researchAssist.js part of Chrome Extension

/**
 * Research Assist
 */

var manualMode = false;
var isSearching = false;
var search = "";
var prevSearch = "";
var rAssist;
setBookmarkRoot();

/**
 *  A function that sets the bookmark node for Research Assist (and creates it)
 */
function setBookmarkRoot() {
    chrome.bookmarks.search({'title': 'Research Assist'}, function (tmp) {
      //console.log(tmp);
      if (tmp.length < 1) {
        chrome.bookmarks.create({'title': 'Research Assist'},
                             function(newFolder) {
              //console.log("created root :" + newFolder.title);
              rAssist= newFolder;
            });
      } else {
        rAssist = tmp[0];  //node is hopefully in the first slot here...
      }
    });
}

chrome.webRequest.onCompleted.addListener(function(e){
    queryUrl = e.url.split("q=")[1] || e.url.split("t=")[1];
    query = queryUrl[0].split("%20").join(" ").split("+").join(" ");
    prevSearch = query;
    isSearching = !manualMode;
    if ( query.length == 0 )
      return;
    prevSearch = query;
}, {urls: ["*://www.google.com/*q=*", "*://www.bing.com/*q=*", "*://www.yahoo.com/*t=*", "*://www.ask.com/*q=*", "*://search.aol.com/*q=*", "*://www.searchaol.com/*q=*", "*://*.wow.com/*q=*",
           "*://www.webcrawler.com/*q=*", "*://*.infospace.com/*q=*", "*://www.dogpile.com/*q=*"]});

chrome.webRequest.onCompleted.addListener(function(e){
    if (isSearching && e.type=="main_frame") {
      console.log(e);
      var url = e.url;
      var title;
      console.log("trying to add", url, "   ", e);
      chrome.tabs.query({active: true, currentWindow:true}, function (rTabs) {
        addResearchMark(url, rTabs[0].title || url);
      });
    }
  }, {urls: ["*://*/*"]});

/**
 * Adds a "Research Mark" which is a bookmark and an entry in popup.html.
 * popup.html either needs to be dynamically populated or stored otherwise a reload event will fire losing all
 * of the current marks.
 */
function addResearchMark(url, title) {
  if (document.getElementById("searches").innerHTML.search(url)==-1){ //if it's not in the list, add it.
    document.getElementById("searches").innerHTML += "<li><a href='"+ url + "'>" + title + " </a> </li> ";
    console.log("[#searches] adding item for ", url, title);
  }
  chrome.bookmarks.search({'url' : url, 'title' : title}, function (bma) {
    if (bma.length==0) {
    chrome.bookmarks.create({ 'parentId' : rAssist.id, 'title': title, 'url': url}, function(bm) {
      console.log("[Research Mark] adding item for ", bm.url, bm.title);
      });
    }
  });
}
/*
chrome.history.onVisited.addListener(function (e) {
  if (isSearching) {
    var url = e.url;
    var title = e.title || e.url;
    addResearchMark(url, title);
  }
});*/

function pause() {
    isSearching = false;
}

function activate() {
    isSearching = true;
}

function manual() {
  if (manualMode) {
    document.getElementById("manualMode").innerHTML = "Automatic Mode";
    manualMode = true;
  } else {
    document.getElementById("manualMode").innerHTML = "Manual Mode";
    manualMode = false;
  }
}