Get Current Url of Uiwebview

Get current URL of UIWebView

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"];

How can I get the URL from webView in swift

You are not getting url because webView has not finished the loading of that requested URL, you can get that URL in webViewDidFinishLoad method of UIWebviewDelegate. For that you need to set delegate of webView with your current ViewController and need to implement UIWebviewDelegate.

webView.delegate = self

Now you can get current loaded URL of webView in webViewDidFinishLoad method.

func webViewDidFinishLoad(_ webView: UIWebView) {
    if let text = webView.request?.url?.absoluteString{
         print(text)
    }
}

iOS Swift : can't Retrieve current url loaded in UIwebView

There are couple of UIWebViewDelegate such as shouldStartLoadWithRequest or webViewDidStartLoad or webViewDidFinishLoad or didFailLoadWithError that help you to accomplish your goal. If you want to perform operation after view did finished then implement this delegate method

Swift 3

if let currentURL = webView.request?.url?.absoluteString{
         print(currentURL)
    }

as it mentioned here.

Get Current URL (UIWebView)

NSString *currentURL = myWebView.request.URL.absoluteString;

UIWebView get current URL of SPA (single page application) website

Step 1: Creating a custom URLProtocol to catch data requests

class CustomURLProtocol: URLProtocol, URLSessionDataDelegate, URLSessionTaskDelegate {

    // If this returns false, the first request will basically stops at where it begins.
    override class func canInit(with request: URLRequest) -> Bool {
        return true
    }

    override class func canonicalRequest(for request: URLRequest) -> URLRequest {
        return request
    }

    override func startLoading() {

        print(self.request.url) // URL of Data requests made by UIWebView before loading.  
        URLSession(configuration: URLSessionConfiguration.default, delegate: self, delegateQueue: nil).dataTask(with: self.request).resume()
    }

    override func stopLoading() {

    }

    func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, dataTask: URLSessionDataTask, didReceive response: URLResponse, completionHandler: @escaping (URLSession.ResponseDisposition) -> Void) {

        // Data request responses received.  
        self.client?.urlProtocol(self, didReceive: response, cacheStoragePolicy: .allowed)
        completionHandler(.allow)
    }

    func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, dataTask: URLSessionDataTask, didReceive data: Data) {

        // Data request data received.
        self.client?.urlProtocol(self, didLoad: data)
        self.urlSession(session, task: dataTask, didCompleteWithError: nil)
    }

    func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, task: URLSessionTask, didCompleteWithError error: Error?) {

        if let error = error {

            self.client?.urlProtocol(self, didFailWithError: error)
            return
        }

        print(self.request.url) // URL of Data requests completed.
        self.client?.urlProtocolDidFinishLoading(self)
    }
}

Step 2: Registering your custom URLProtocol

Register your custom URLProtocol before loading your SPA in UIWebview.

URLProtocol.registerClass(CustomURLProtocol.self)

Hope this helps! Sorry for the delay, was caught up at work.

How to get http:// address of page loaded in UIWebView?

Please make your class the delegate of the webview using

webView.delegate = self

Then override the delegate method,

func webView(_ webView: UIWebView, shouldStartLoadWith request: URLRequest, navigationType: UIWebViewNavigationType) -> Bool {
        print("current url is \(request.mainDocumentURL!.absoluteString)")
        return true;
}

This will give the current url going to be loaded

How to get the url of currently playing video in UIWebview

There is a hacky way of doing it by listening for the AVPlayerItemBecameCurrentNotification notification. This notification is fired when a UIWebView shows the media player, and it sends an AVPlayerItem as the notification's object.

For example:

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                         selector:@selector(playerItemBecameCurrent:)
                                             name:@"AVPlayerItemBecameCurrentNotification"
                                           object:nil];


-(void)playerItemBecameCurrent:(NSNotification*)notification {
    AVPlayerItem *playerItem = [notification object];
    if(playerItem == nil) return;
    // Break down the AVPlayerItem to get to the path
    AVURLAsset *asset = (AVURLAsset*)[playerItem asset];
    NSURL *url = [asset URL];
    NSString *path = [url absoluteString];
}

This works for any video (and audio). However, I noticed you mentioned YouTube - it's worth pointing out Apple WILL reject your app if it has the ability to download YouTube videos AT ALL, because it's against YouTube's Terms of Service.

SWIFT: Why I can't get the current URL loaded in UIWebView?

If you put parentheses around this, the error goes away:

let currentURL : NSString = (webView.request?.URL.absoluteString)!

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