This might be of some help: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/ieextensiondevelopment/thread/e3a501d6-2163-4cc0-be2d-5011e7fa9613/ <http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/ieextensiondevelopment/thread/e3a501d6-2163-4cc0-be2d-5011e7fa9613/>Check out Dan Morris's post, or T E dixons.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:42 PM, He Jibo <hej...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks so much for your valuable information. I will only need the url of a > browser when it is in the front. I am going to try SendKey, it seems to be a > good way to go. Have a nice day! > > > --------------------------- > He Jibo > Department of Psychology, > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology > University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, > 603 East Daniel St., > Champaign, IL 61820 > website: www.hejibo.info > > > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Mike Driscoll < > mdrisc...@co.marshall.ia.us> wrote: > >> On 1:59 PM, He Jibo wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I am writing a small program, which needs to get the URL of the active >> tab in either of firefox, internet exploerer or chrome. >> My need is similar as the one posted at, >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3631216/how-do-i-get-the-url-of-the-visible-tab-in-firefox- >> ie-chrome >> >> I did a lot of Googling, and get the following code. The following >> code can get the url of the first tab in internet explorer. My >> question is, how can I get the url of the current active tab? Thanks. >> >> ''' >> >> http://efreedom.com/Question/1-2555905/Get-Internet-Explorer-Address-Bar-Python >> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/07/05/435657.aspx >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2004-June/002040.html >> >> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/302324-browser-automation-tool-py-class-file/ >> ''' >> from win32com.client import Dispatch >> import win32api, win32con,win32gui >> >> >> SHELL = Dispatch("Shell.Application") >> >> def get_ie(shell): >> for win in shell.Windows(): >> # print win >> if win.Name == "Windows Internet Explorer": >> return win >> return None >> >> def main(): >> ie = get_ie(SHELL) >> if ie: >> print ie.LocationURL >> print ie.LocationName >> print ie.ReadyState >> print ie >> print ie.Document.title >> print ie.Document.location >> print ie.Document.forms >> >> # title = win32gui.GetWindowText(ie) >> # print title >> >> else: >> print "no ie window" >> >> if __name__ == '__main__': >> main() >> --------------------------- >> He Jibo >> Department of Psychology, >> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology >> University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, >> 603 East Daniel St., >> Champaign, IL 61820 >> website: www.hejibo.info >> >> >> It will probably be frowned on here, but one of the easiest ways would be >> to use SendKeys in combination with some Windows hackery. I have attached >> some code I came up with after getting help from several of the fine people >> on this list. It shows how to bring a window into focus by just passing in >> an expected string. In this case, you would want to use something like >> "Windows Internet Explorer" and have it search for that. >> >> Once that's in focus, you can use the SendKeys package ( >> http://www.rutherfurd.net/python/sendkeys/) to send an ALT+D to select >> the url and then CTRL+C to copy it. Then you can use the win32clipboard >> module from PyWin32 to grab the text from the clipboard. >> >> It's a hack, but it's kind of fun. Of course, you can't use your PC while >> the script runs or you might interrupt the process and send the keys to the >> wrong window. >> >> >> -- >> Mike Driscoll >> Applications Specialist >> Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > >
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