how to get firefox address bar url for python (pywin32)

Question

hi;

i need grab to firefox address bar. how to get address bar url for python ? (i need second part other browsers chrome and safari grabbing address bar but firefox is urgently).

Thanks.

Answer 1

You will need to go thru all top windows, and see if title contains firefox or check window class of firefox using spy++, then go thru all child windows to find URL, as a starting point do something like this

import win32gui

def enumerationCallaback(hwnd, results):
    text = win32gui.GetWindowText(hwnd)
    if text.find("Mozilla Firefox") >= 0:
        results.append((hwnd, text))

mywindows = []    
win32gui.EnumWindows(enumerationCallaback, mywindows)
for win, text in mywindows:
    print text

def recurseChildWindow(hwnd, results):
    win32gui.EnumChildWindows(hwnd, recurseChildWindow, results)
    print hwnd
    # try to get window class, text etc using SendMessage and see if it is what we want

mychildren = []
recurseChildWindow(mywindows[0][0], mychildren)

Also you can use this module to do most of such tasks http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/winGuiAuto.py.html