[python-win32] How do I get the URL of the active tab in Internet Explorer

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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 <hejibo at 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 <
> mdriscoll at 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
>>
>
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