Retrieving WKWebView Current URL Cocoa

Question

I am creating a web browser. I have a text box where the user can input where they want to go. I need to figure out how to update the text box when the user goes to another link inside of a link. For example if the user wants to go to YouTube, and they click on a video. I want the desiredWebsite or the NSTextField to be updated with the current website. I red multiple tutorials saying that it has something to do with the delegate. I do not know how to do that.

import Cocoa
import WebKit
class ViewController: NSViewController {
@IBOutlet weak var webview: WKWebView!
@IBOutlet var desiredWebsite: NSTextField!
@IBOutlet var goBackButton: NSButton!
@IBOutlet var goHomeButton: NSButton!
@IBOutlet var goForwardButton: NSButton!
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    let initialurl = "https://google.com"
    let url = URL(string: String(initialurl))
    let request = URLRequest(url: url!)
    webview.load(request)
    desiredWebsite.stringValue = initialurl
}
@IBAction func desiredWebsiteOnTouch(_ sender: Any) {
    let gotoweb = desiredWebsite.stringValue
    let url = URL(string: String(gotoweb))
    let request = URLRequest(url: url!)
    webview.load(request)
    desiredWebsite.stringValue = gotoweb
}
@IBAction func goHomeOnTouch(_ sender: Any) {
    let gotohome = "https://google.com"
    let url = URL(string: String(gotohome))
    let request = URLRequest(url: url!)
    webview.load(request)
    desiredWebsite.stringValue = gotohome
}
@IBAction func goBackOnTouch(_ sender: Any) {
    let gotoback = ""
    let url = URL(string: String(gotoback))
    let request = URLRequest(url: url!)
    webview.load(request)
    desiredWebsite.stringValue = gotoback
}
override var representedObject: Any? {
    didSet {
    }
}
}

Possible duplicate of [WKWebView full URL](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26342546/wkwebview-full-url) — Tamás Sengel, May 15 '18 at 13:26
I tried this one a long time ago. It did not work with swift 4. — Larson Carter, May 15 '18 at 13:27
I [added an answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/50351577/3151675) that works with Swift 4. — Tamás Sengel, May 15 '18 at 13:32
you can use webView.url?.absoluteString in delegate method like func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didFinish navigation: WKNavigation!) or func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didCommit navigation: WKNavigation!) — Devil Decoder, May 15 '18 at 13:32
How do you do a delegate method? I am kind of an noob at Xcode and software development. — Larson Carter, May 15 '18 at 13:35
So do I create a new delegate. Or do I use the ones that are given to me? — Larson Carter, May 15 '18 at 21:09
Still can not figure it out. I created a new delegate. That Did not Solve it. I have tried all of the given tutorials. — Larson Carter, May 16 '18 at 01:16

Retrieving WKWebView Current URL Cocoa

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