Get Current URL using Selenium for Python

Get Current URL

To get the current URL in the browser window using Selenium for Python, read the current_url property of web driver object.

driver.current_url

Example

1. Initialise Chrome Web Driver object as driver.
2. Get the URL https://pythonexamples.org/ using web driver object.
3. Find element by link text 'OpenCV' and click on the element.
4. Make an implicit wait of 5 seconds.
5. Get the current URL to my_current_url variable.
6. Print the current URL to output.

Python Program

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

service = Service(executable_path="/usr/local/bin/chromedriver")
with webdriver.Chrome(service=service) as driver:
    driver.get('https://pythonexamples.org/')
    driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, 'OpenCV').click()
    driver.implicitly_wait(5)
    my_current_url = driver.current_url
    print(my_current_url)

Output

https://pythonexamples.org/python-opencv/

Summary

In this Python Selenium Tutorial, we learned how to navigate to a specific URL using driver.get() method.