Can I read the browser url using selenium webdriver?

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I am using python2.7 with beautiful Soup4 and Selenium webdriver. Now in my webautomation script i will open the link or URL and get into the home page. Now I need to click onto some anchor Labels to navigate through other pages.I did till now. now when i will be going to a new page, I need to get the new URL from the browser as I need to pass it Beautiful Soup4 for webpage scraping. So now my concern is how to get such URLs dynamic way?

Please advice if any!

possible duplicate of How do I get current URL in Selenium Webdriver 2 Python? — kenorb
– kenorb, Commented May 13, 2015 at 11:06

Smart Manoj · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-27 13:51:17Z

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You get current_url attribute on the driver:

from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://www.google.com')
print(browser.current_url)

edited Jan 27, 2021 at 13:51

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