How do I get current URL in Selenium Webdriver 2 Python?

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I'm trying to get the current url after a series of navigations in Selenium. I know there's a command called getLocation for ruby, but I can't find the syntax for Python.

Selenium doc explains it all :https://www.selenium.dev/docs/site/en/webdriver/browser_manipulation/#get-current-url — anandharshan, Jun 29 '20 at 04:05

score 439 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 18 '20 at 08:17

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Use current_url element for Python 2:

print browser.current_url

For Python 3 and later versions of selenium:

print(driver.current_url)

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answered Apr 13 '13 at 08:53

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or, also known as `driver.current_url` – salo.dm Jun 27 '13 at 08:29
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suppose, there is a chain of page p1->p2->p3 where p2 on the basis of credentials in p1 is redirecting to either p1 or p3. How to get the url just after clicking which I am not able to understand. selenium doesnot stop at that page and is directly giving me the url of p3. how to go for this? – proprius Jan 07 '16 at 09:54
@proprius https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35592602/how-can-i-get-a-intermediate-url-from-a-redirect-chain-from-selenium-using-pytho – ed22 Jul 09 '19 at 09:59
more importantly, where is this documented on https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/ ? – Robert Johnstone Mar 17 '20 at 09:33
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@RobertJohnstone: https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/api.html?highlight=current_url#selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver.WebDriver.current_url – xibalba1 Sep 14 '21 at 20:05

pbaranski · Answer 2 · 2021-06-01T13:55:17.750

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According to this documentation (a place full of goodies:)):

driver.current_url

or, see official documentation: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/en/webdriver/browser_manipulation/#get-current-url

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score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 02 '13 at 07:53

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Selenium2Library has get_location():

import Selenium2Library
s = Selenium2Library.Selenium2Library()
url = s.get_location()

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 02 '19 at 23:42

Another way to do it would be to inspect the url bar in chrome to find the id of the element, have your WebDriver click that element, and then send the keys you use to copy and paste using the keys common function from selenium, and then printing it out or storing it as a variable, etc.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 27 '23 at 21:34

There are multiple ways to get the current URL via the driver:

driver.current_url
driver.execute_script("return document.URL;")
driver.execute_script("return document.location.href;")
driver.execute_script("return window.location.href;")

(Note that there are differences between the various JS variables for this, as specified here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5388084/7058266)

In some cases, you might not want the full URL, but the origin instead:

driver.execute_script("return window.location.origin;")

For example, on stackoverflow pages (such as this one), the origin is https://stackoverflow.com. (Useful for when you don't want the full URL.)

There are also popular Python frameworks, such as SeleniumBase, with built-in methods for returning the URL, (or the origin):

self.get_current_url()    # SeleniumBase only
self.get_origin()         # SeleniumBase only

How do I get current URL in Selenium Webdriver 2 Python?

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