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 h

Answer 1

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 2

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 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

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 5

This always works . .

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

Answer 6

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.