Get Chrome tab URL in Python

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Don’t worry about local-language solutions and support for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera and other most chromium engine browsers:

Support to modify current tab url, other browsers can add their own adaptations if they are not available, and more functions supported by UIAutomation can be customized.

import uiautomation as auto


class BrowserWindow:
    def __init__(self, browser_name, window_index=1):
        """
        A Browser Window support UIAutomation.

        :param browser_name: Browser name, support 'Google Chrome', 'Firefox', 'Edge', 'Opera', etc.
        :param window_index: Count from back to front, default value 1 represents the most recently created window.
        """
        if browser_name == 'Firefox':
            addr_bar = auto.Control(Depth=1, ClassName="MozillaWindowClass", foundIndex=window_index) \
                .ToolBarControl(AutomationId='nav-bar').ComboBoxControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=1) \
                .EditControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=1)
        else:
            win = auto.Control(Depth=1, ClassName="Chrome_WidgetWin_1", SubName=browser_name, foundIndex=window_index)
            win_pane = win.PaneControl(Depth=1, Compare=lambda control, _depth: control.Name != '')
            if browser_name == 'Edge':
                addr_pane = win_pane.PaneControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=1).PaneControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=2) \
                    .PaneControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=1).ToolBarControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=1)
            elif browser_name == 'Opera':
                addr_pane = win_pane.GroupControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=1).PaneControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=1) \
                    .PaneControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=2).GroupControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=1) \
                    .GroupControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=1).ToolBarControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=1) \
                    .EditControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=1)
            else:
                addr_pane = win_pane.PaneControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=2).PaneControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=1) \
                    .PaneControl(Depth=1, Compare=lambda control, _depth:
                control.GetFirstChildControl() and control.GetFirstChildControl().ControlTypeName == 'ButtonControl')
            addr_bar = addr_pane.GroupControl(Depth=1, foundIndex=1).EditControl(Depth=1)
        assert addr_bar is not None
        self.addr_bar = addr_bar

    @property
    def current_tab_url(self):
        """Get current tab url."""
        return self.addr_bar.GetValuePattern().Value

    @current_tab_url.setter
    def current_tab_url(self, value: str):
        """Set current tab url."""
        self.addr_bar.GetValuePattern().SetValue(value)


browser = BrowserWindow('Google Chrome')

print(browser.current_tab_url)
browser.current_tab_url="www.google.com"
print(browser.current_tab_url)

The principle behind pywinauto and uiautomation is both Windows UI Automation.

Pywinauto search control was too slow for me because it needed to search all the subtrees.
If you want faster speed, customizing the search location to access the UI will be useful, uiautomation is a wrapper package Python-UIAutomation-for-Windows.

The above code test first acquisition speed is within 0.1s, average 0.05s, re-acquisition based on cache will be faster.

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