How to get current URL from Chrome using selenium in Python

Question

I want to get the URL of the currently open website in Chrome:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

print(driver.current_url)

However this only opens a new Chrome window with "data:," as its url. What do I have to do to get for example "Youtube.com" when I have youtube open

You can't access Browser windows not opened via Selenium. You would need to build Chrome extension for such cases — Tarun Lalwani, Mar 12 '21 at 09:29

Yevhen B · Answer 1 · 2021-03-13T22:51:01.130

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Okay, but you actually forgot to open youtube.com URL:


driver = webdriver.Chrome()

driver.get('https://www.youtube.com/') # << Ask driver to open site of interest

print(driver.current_url)

edited Mar 13 '21 at 22:51

answered Mar 13 '21 at 18:03

Yevhen B

I think I wrote it a bit misleading. What I wanted to ask is how to get the url of an already open tab in browser. But I found out that this is impossible with selenium. – Connor Kolan Mar 13 '21 at 21:58
In general it is agains the spirit of Selenium, but you still could try [this] (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8344776/can-selenium-interact-with-an-existing-browser-session) – Yevhen B Mar 13 '21 at 22:49

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