Get current URL of UIWebView

Question

I already tried getting the current URL of my UIWebView with: webview.request.URL. Unfortunately the NSURL was empty. Anything wrong here? I am working with Xcode 3.2.2 beta 5.

The code above should be executed in the UIWebView delegate didStartLoad.

Answer 1

window.location via JS didn't work reliably for me, but this did:

currentURL = currentWebView.request.URL.absoluteString;

Credit: http://mohrt.blogspot.com/2008/10/getting-url-from-uiwebview.html

Answer 2

here's the code I use to grab the url every time you navigate to a different link within the webview:

- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)aWebView
{
  self.url = aWebView.request.mainDocumentURL;
}

Answer 3

Matt's version is much cleaner. I recommend everyone to use that one instead of this

You could try this:

NSString *currentURL = [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"window.location"];

Answer 4

I too found that the approved answer above was not reliable. But with a slight modification, it seems to work every time:

NSString *currentURL = [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"window.location.href"];

Note the addition of ".href" to the Javascript as this is hidden at the end of the line of code.

Answer 5

This is not correct, and will return a nil:

NSString *currentURL = [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"window.location"];

However, the code below can get a URL, but the url may not be the current URL:

NSString *url = _webView.request.URL.absoluteString;

The correct one is:

NSString *currentURL = [_webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"window.location.href"];

Answer 6

- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView{
     NSURL *currentURL = [[webView request] URL];
     NSLog(@"%@",[currentURL description]);

}

Answer 7

Tried this for google search results on iPhone:

 NSString* currentURL = webView.request.URL.absoluteString;
 NSString* mainDocumentURL = webView.request.mainDocumentURL.absoluteString;

Both return the same string!

Answer 8

here the code i use :

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[[[webView request] URL] absoluteString]]];

Answer 9

As UIWebView is deprecated, for WKWebview to get the current url is very simple.

webView.url

Answer 10

I use the shouldStartLoadWithRequest event (UIWebViewDelegate) to catch URL updates. request.mainDocumentURL.absoluteString will get you the main web page's URL (which is normally what you want), while request.URL.absoluteString will include CSS and JavaScript includes.

Answer 11

This always works . .

NSString* url= [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"window.location.href"];

Answer 12

implement delegate method,

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webview shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
    NSString  *URL = request.URL.absoluteString;    NSLog(@"%@",URL);
}

URL is the what you exactly needed.

Answer 13

IN Swift try this,

func webViewDidFinishLoad(webView: UIWebView){
    println(WebView.request?.mainDocumentURL)
}

Answer 14

To get current URL of the WKWebView and UIWebview

Here is the code.

if (self.wkWebView) {
   NSString  *URL = self.wkWebView.title;
}else if(self.uiWebView) {
   NSString *URL = self.uiWebView.request.title;
}