How can I get URLs of open pages from Chrome and Firefox?
Maybe this code can help something; Thanks to BLEZ for share this code. I use this code to capture unique addresses from firefox and add them to a listbox. But I think this is not for Chrome right?
(you Should add NDde.dll to your project, to do this go to solution explorer right click to References-> add Reference->Browse-> find that DLL (http://ndde.codeplex.com/ from binary folder.))
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using NDde.Client;
namespace WindowsFormsApplication9
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
timer1.Enabled = true;
}
private string GetBrowserURL(string browser)
{
try
{
DdeClient dde = new DdeClient(browser, "WWW_GetWindowInfo");
dde.Connect();
string url = dde.Request("URL", int.MaxValue);
string[] text = url.Split(new string[] { "\",\"" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
dde.Disconnect();
return text[0].Substring(1);
}
catch
{
return null;
}
}
private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
int j=0;
for (int i = 0; i < listBox1.Items.Count; i++)
{
if (listBox1.Items[i].ToString() == GetBrowserURL("Firefox"))
{
break;
}
else
{
j++;
}
}
if (j == listBox1.Items.Count)
{
listBox1.Items.Add(GetBrowserURL("Firefox"));
}
}
}
}
It's specific for every browser. That's for the major ones:
- Internet Explorer - You can use SHDocVw (like you did)
- Firefox - You can get the URL using DDE (source below)
- Chrome - You can get the URL while enumerating all the child windows untill you get to the control with class "Chrome_OmniboxView" and then get the text using
GetWindowText - Opera - You can use the same thing as Firefox, but with "opera"
- Safari - There is no known method since it uses custom drawn controls
EDIT: Since 2014, Chrome has changed and you need to get the URL with Acessibility.
Code to get the URL from Firefox/Opera using DDE (which used NDDE - the only good DDE wrapper for .NET):
//
// usage: GetBrowserURL("opera") or GetBrowserURL("firefox")
//
private string GetBrowserURL(string browser) {
try {
DdeClient dde = new DdeClient(browser, "WWW_GetWindowInfo");
dde.Connect();
string url = dde.Request("URL", int.MaxValue);
string[] text = url.Split(new string[] { "\",\"" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
dde.Disconnect();
return text[0].Substring(1);
} catch {
return null;
}
}
Using UIAutomation - get urls for FireFox and Chrome:
else if (browser == BrowserType.Chrome)
{
//"Chrome_WidgetWin_1"
Process[] procsChrome = Process.GetProcessesByName("chrome");
foreach (Process chrome in procsChrome)
{
// the chrome process must have a window
if (chrome.MainWindowHandle == IntPtr.Zero)
{
continue;
}
//AutomationElement elm = AutomationElement.RootElement.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children,
// new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ClassNameProperty, "Chrome_WidgetWin_1"));
// find the automation element
AutomationElement elm = AutomationElement.FromHandle(chrome.MainWindowHandle);
// manually walk through the tree, searching using TreeScope.Descendants is too slow (even if it's more reliable)
AutomationElement elmUrlBar = null;
try
{
// walking path found using inspect.exe (Windows SDK) for Chrome 29.0.1547.76 m (currently the latest stable)
var elm1 = elm.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Google Chrome"));
var elm2 = TreeWalker.ControlViewWalker.GetLastChild(elm1); // I don't know a Condition for this for finding :(
var elm3 = elm2.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, ""));
var elm4 = elm3.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.ToolBar));
elmUrlBar = elm4.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Address and search bar"));
}
catch
{
// Chrome has probably changed something, and above walking needs to be modified. :(
// put an assertion here or something to make sure you don't miss it
continue;
}
// make sure it's valid
if (elmUrlBar == null)
{
// it's not..
continue;
}
// elmUrlBar is now the URL bar element. we have to make sure that it's out of keyboard focus if we want to get a valid URL
if ((bool)elmUrlBar.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElement.HasKeyboardFocusProperty))
{
continue;
}
// there might not be a valid pattern to use, so we have to make sure we have one
AutomationPattern[] patterns = elmUrlBar.GetSupportedPatterns();
if (patterns.Length == 1)
{
string ret = "";
try
{
ret = ((ValuePattern)elmUrlBar.GetCurrentPattern(patterns[0])).Current.Value;
}
catch { }
if (ret != "")
{
// must match a domain name (and possibly "https://" in front)
if (Regex.IsMatch(ret, @"^(https:\/\/)?[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+(\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}).*$"))
{
// prepend http:// to the url, because Chrome hides it if it's not SSL
if (!ret.StartsWith("http"))
{
ret = "http://" + ret;
}
return ret;
}
}
continue;
}
}
}
else if (browser == BrowserType.Firefox)
{
AutomationElement root = AutomationElement.RootElement.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children,
new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ClassNameProperty, "MozillaWindowClass"));
Condition toolBar = new AndCondition(
new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.ToolBar),
new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Browser tabs"));
var tool = root.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, toolBar);
var tool2 = TreeWalker.ControlViewWalker.GetNextSibling(tool);
var children = tool2.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition);
foreach (AutomationElement item in children)
{
foreach (AutomationElement i in item.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition))
{
foreach (AutomationElement ii in i.FindAll(TreeScope.Element, Condition.TrueCondition))
{
if (ii.Current.LocalizedControlType == "edit")
{
if (!ii.Current.BoundingRectangle.X.ToString().Contains("empty"))
{
ValuePattern activeTab = ii.GetCurrentPattern(ValuePattern.Pattern) as ValuePattern;
var activeUrl = activeTab.Current.Value;
return activeUrl;
}
}
}
}
}
}