Get Current URL – Selenium Java

Get Current URL

To get the the current URL of web page programmatically using Selenium in Java, initialize a web driver and call getCurrentUrl() method on the web driver object.

WebDriver.getCurrentUrl() method returns a string representing the current URL that the browser is looking at.

The following is a simple code snippet to initialize a web driver and get the URL of the current web page.

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
//some code
String currentUrl = driver.getCurrentUrl();

Example

In the following program, we write Java code to initialize a web driver, visit google.com, search for the query 'tutorialkart', and get the current URL of that web page.

Java Program

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class MyAppTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/usr/local/bin/chromedriver");  
    	WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://google.com/ncr");

        WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
        searchBox.sendKeys("tutorialkart");
        searchBox.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);
        
        String currentUrl = driver.getCurrentUrl();
        System.out.println(currentUrl);
        
        driver.quit();
    }
}

Screenshots

1. Initialize web driver and navigate to google.com.

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://google.com/ncr");