How can I get URLs of open pages from Chrome and Firefox?

Maybe this code can help something; Thanks to BLEZ for share this code. I use this code to capture unique addresses from firefox and add them to a listbox. But I think this is not for Chrome right?

(you Should add NDde.dll to your project, to do this go to solution explorer right click to References-> add Reference->Browse-> find that DLL (http://ndde.codeplex.com/ from binary folder.))

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using NDde.Client;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication9
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            timer1.Enabled = true;
        }

        private string GetBrowserURL(string browser)
        {
            try
            {
                DdeClient dde = new DdeClient(browser, "WWW_GetWindowInfo");
                dde.Connect();
                string url = dde.Request("URL", int.MaxValue);
                string[] text = url.Split(new string[] { "\",\"" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
                dde.Disconnect();
                return text[0].Substring(1);
            }
            catch
            {
                return null;
            }
        }

        private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            int j=0;
            for (int i = 0; i < listBox1.Items.Count; i++)
            {
                if (listBox1.Items[i].ToString() == GetBrowserURL("Firefox"))
                {
                    break;
                }
                else
                {
                    j++;
                }
            }
            if (j == listBox1.Items.Count)
            {
                listBox1.Items.Add(GetBrowserURL("Firefox"));
            }
        }
    }
}

It's specific for every browser. That's for the major ones:

  • Internet Explorer - You can use SHDocVw (like you did)
  • Firefox - You can get the URL using DDE (source below)
  • Chrome - You can get the URL while enumerating all the child windows untill you get to the control with class "Chrome_OmniboxView" and then get the text using GetWindowText
  • Opera - You can use the same thing as Firefox, but with "opera"
  • Safari - There is no known method since it uses custom drawn controls

EDIT: Since 2014, Chrome has changed and you need to get the URL with Acessibility.

Code to get the URL from Firefox/Opera using DDE (which used NDDE - the only good DDE wrapper for .NET):

//
// usage: GetBrowserURL("opera") or GetBrowserURL("firefox")
//

private string GetBrowserURL(string browser) {
    try {
        DdeClient dde = new DdeClient(browser, "WWW_GetWindowInfo");
        dde.Connect();
        string url = dde.Request("URL", int.MaxValue);
        string[] text = url.Split(new string[] { "\",\"" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
        dde.Disconnect();
        return text[0].Substring(1);
    } catch {
        return null;
    }
}

Using UIAutomation - get urls for FireFox and Chrome:

 else if (browser == BrowserType.Chrome)
        {
            //"Chrome_WidgetWin_1"

            Process[] procsChrome = Process.GetProcessesByName("chrome");
            foreach (Process chrome in procsChrome)
            {
                // the chrome process must have a window
                if (chrome.MainWindowHandle == IntPtr.Zero)
                {
                    continue;
                }
                //AutomationElement elm = AutomationElement.RootElement.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children,
                //         new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ClassNameProperty, "Chrome_WidgetWin_1"));
                // find the automation element
                AutomationElement elm = AutomationElement.FromHandle(chrome.MainWindowHandle);

                // manually walk through the tree, searching using TreeScope.Descendants is too slow (even if it's more reliable)
                AutomationElement elmUrlBar = null;
                try
                {
                    // walking path found using inspect.exe (Windows SDK) for Chrome 29.0.1547.76 m (currently the latest stable)
                    var elm1 = elm.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Google Chrome"));
                    var elm2 = TreeWalker.ControlViewWalker.GetLastChild(elm1); // I don't know a Condition for this for finding :(
                    var elm3 = elm2.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, ""));
                    var elm4 = elm3.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.ToolBar));
                    elmUrlBar = elm4.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Address and search bar"));
                }
                catch
                {
                    // Chrome has probably changed something, and above walking needs to be modified. :(
                    // put an assertion here or something to make sure you don't miss it
                    continue;
                }

                // make sure it's valid
                if (elmUrlBar == null)
                {
                    // it's not..
                    continue;
                }

                // elmUrlBar is now the URL bar element. we have to make sure that it's out of keyboard focus if we want to get a valid URL
                if ((bool)elmUrlBar.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElement.HasKeyboardFocusProperty))
                {
                    continue;
                }

                // there might not be a valid pattern to use, so we have to make sure we have one
                AutomationPattern[] patterns = elmUrlBar.GetSupportedPatterns();
                if (patterns.Length == 1)
                {
                    string ret = "";
                    try
                    {
                        ret = ((ValuePattern)elmUrlBar.GetCurrentPattern(patterns[0])).Current.Value;
                    }
                    catch { }
                    if (ret != "")
                    {
                        // must match a domain name (and possibly "https://" in front)
                        if (Regex.IsMatch(ret, @"^(https:\/\/)?[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+(\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}).*$"))
                        {
                            // prepend http:// to the url, because Chrome hides it if it's not SSL
                            if (!ret.StartsWith("http"))
                            {
                                ret = "http://" + ret;
                            }
                            return ret;
                        }
                    }
                    continue;
                }
            }

        }
        else if (browser == BrowserType.Firefox)
        {
            AutomationElement root = AutomationElement.RootElement.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children,
                new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ClassNameProperty, "MozillaWindowClass"));

                Condition toolBar = new AndCondition(
                new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.ToolBar),
                new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Browser tabs"));
                var tool = root.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, toolBar);

                var tool2 = TreeWalker.ControlViewWalker.GetNextSibling(tool);

                var children = tool2.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition);

                foreach (AutomationElement item in children)
                {
                    foreach (AutomationElement i in item.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition))
                    {
                        foreach (AutomationElement ii in i.FindAll(TreeScope.Element, Condition.TrueCondition))
                        {
                            if (ii.Current.LocalizedControlType == "edit")
                            {
                                if (!ii.Current.BoundingRectangle.X.ToString().Contains("empty"))
                                {
                                    ValuePattern activeTab = ii.GetCurrentPattern(ValuePattern.Pattern) as ValuePattern;
                                    var activeUrl = activeTab.Current.Value;
                                    return activeUrl;
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }