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I am trying to get the complete URL from address bar of chrome. I am using this code. 

import re
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'C:\Users\XYZ\Desktop\ABC\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe')  # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
driver.get('https://www.google.com/maps');
#time.sleep(1) # Let the user actually see something!
search_box = driver.find_element_by_name('q')
search_box.send_keys('India Gate')
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("button[id='searchbox-searchbutton']").click()
currentURL = driver.current_url
print(currentURL)
time.sleep(5)
driver.quit()

Instead of getting a complete URL in the address bar I am only getting https://google.com/maps

I need a URL like this https://www.google.com/maps/place/India+Gate/@28.6337379,77.2060128,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x390ce2daa9eb4d0b:0x717971125923e5d!8m2!3d28.612912!4d77.2295097

What am I missing? Please help. It's my first time using Selenium.

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    What happens if you add time.sleep(5) right after click on search button? Commented Jan 7, 2020 at 8:31
  • Right, I did that and now I am getting the complete location Commented Jan 7, 2020 at 8:49

3 Answers 3

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To extract the url you need to induce WebDriverWait for the url_contains() and you can use the following solution:

  • Code Block:

    import re
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'C:\Users\XYZ\Desktop\ABC\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe')  # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
driver.get('https://www.google.com/maps');
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.NAME, "q"))).send_keys("India Gate")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("button[id='searchbox-searchbutton']").click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.url_contains("Gate"))
print(driver.current_url)
driver.quit()

  • Console Output:

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/India+Gate/@28.6129167,77.227321,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x390ce2daa9eb4d0b:0x717971125923e5d!8m2!3d28.612912!4d77.2295097

Update

As an alternative instead of url_contains("Gate") you can use url_contains("data=") as follows:

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.url_contains("data="))
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hi, i am still getting the same response
@AMal Checkout the updated answer and let me know the status.
same response. I am using Jupyter. Do you think that might affect the output?
I tried changing the code to directly save the URL in a text file. There too I am only getting the shortened response and the not complete URL like you are getting at your console output.
@AMal Shouldn't have made any difference within Jupyter and save the URL in a text file as well.
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The same code block provided by DebanjanB worked when I increased the wait time.

import re
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'C:\Users\XYZ\Desktop\ABC\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe')  # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
driver.get('https://www.google.com/maps');
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.NAME, "q"))).send_keys("India Gate")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("button[id='searchbox-searchbutton']").click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(EC.url_contains("Gate"))
print(driver.current_url)
driver.quit()

This may be because your internet connection is slow or other factors.

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It's still not working for me. Let me try in Firefox. Maybe it's a browser issue.
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According your feedback on my comment I would suggest you the following code snippet:

import re
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'C:\Users\XYZ\Desktop\ABC\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe')  # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
driver.get('https://www.google.com/maps');
#time.sleep(1) # Let the user actually see something!
search_box = driver.find_element_by_name('q')
search_box.send_keys('India Gate')
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("button[id='searchbox-searchbutton']").click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.url_contains("https://www.google.com/maps/place/")) # here you are waiting until url will match your output pattern
currentURL = driver.current_url
print(currentURL)
time.sleep(5)
driver.quit()

PS avoid as much as possible hardcoded pause

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I remember you have provided great answers earlier implementing WebDriverWait :) why to fall back to sleep () again?
Once you are a master, there shouldn't be any downgradation ;)
Why time.sleep(5) before driver.quit() ;)

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