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need to get browser's active tab url for windows and linux
I would love to have this functionality too. Can someone point us to the right direction?
Does someone got success on Mac as I tried but on Mac I don’t even get the URLs as mentioned in description.
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 3:18 PM, John Caesar Patac [email protected] wrote:
I would love to have this functionality too. Can someone point us to the right direction?
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it works for me on a mac. would need it to be working on windows/linux as well too. Any idea whats the issue?
No idea, but documentation already described its not working on windows and Linux. I saw the code and it’s for Mac only but somehow at my Mac machine it was not working.
I found privacy settings I think I have to permit that to grab the url on Mac. Will update you if that’s working.
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it works for me on a mac. would need it to be working on windows/linux as well too. Any idea whats the issue?
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There is a tool written in Go that can parse the active browser tab's URL from Chrome's session files: https://github.com/lemnos/chrome-session-dump
Presumably, this tool could be bundled within active-win, or its parsing code ported to NodeJS. This should work on both Windows and Linux. It might even work with all Chromium-based browsers.
I tested it on Linux already. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to do a PR currently. So, if anyone with some Go experience wants to take a look ;)
Hello
You can use UI Automation in Windows
Example my code in c++ for chrome
// MathLibrary.cpp : Defines the exported functions for the DLL.
#include "pch.h" // use stdafx.h in Visual Studio 2017 and earlier
#include <AtlBase.h>
#include <UIAutomation.h>
#include <comutil.h>
#include "Chrome.h"
#pragma comment(lib, "comsuppw.lib")
BSTR chrome_geturl(HWND hwnd) {
CoInitialize(NULL);
CComBSTR empty(L"");
BSTR r = empty;
while (true)
{
if (!hwnd)
break;
if (!IsWindowVisible(hwnd))
continue;
CComQIPtr<IUIAutomation> uia;
if (FAILED(uia.CoCreateInstance(CLSID_CUIAutomation)) || !uia)
break;
CComPtr<IUIAutomationElement> root;
if (FAILED(uia->ElementFromHandle(hwnd, &root)) || !root)
break;
CComPtr<IUIAutomationCondition> condition;
//URL's id is 0xC354, or use UIA_EditControlTypeId for 1st edit box
uia->CreatePropertyCondition(UIA_ControlTypePropertyId,
CComVariant(0xC354), &condition);
//or use edit control's name instead
//uia->CreatePropertyCondition(UIA_NamePropertyId,
// CComVariant(L"Address and search bar"), &condition);
CComPtr<IUIAutomationElement> edit;
if (FAILED(root->FindFirst(TreeScope_Descendants, condition, &edit))
|| !edit)
break; //maybe we don't have the right tab, continue...
CComVariant url;
if (FAILED(edit->GetCurrentPropertyValue(UIA_ValueValuePropertyId, &url)))
break;
r = url.bstrVal;
break;
}
CoUninitialize();
return (_bstr_t)r;
};
BSTR getChromeUrl(HWND hwnd)
{
BSTR r = chrome_geturl(hwnd);
return r;
}
One option is to use browser extensions to append the URL to the window title, then parse it after retrieving it from active win.
