Read all urls in ie and write to a file

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I'm tired of manually copying all the urls one by one in ie browser tab links or multiple ie windows/browsers urls address link field, then paste into a text file.

Anyone have any simple coding method of doing it?

Thank you.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Can you clarify your requirements?

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I mean the actual link in the address bar in IE, I want to copy that link into a file.

Eg, if I open multiple IE tabs, I just want copy the address link in each IE tab into a file or
if I open multiple IE windows, I want copy the address link in each IE window into a file.

For now, I'm doing it manually copy and paste link by link into a file, so I guess whynot create a macro to do it instead.
But I have no idea how to do it.

Thanks.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Try this:

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VBSTART
Sub GetURLS(filename)
  set objShell = CreateObject("shell.application")
  set objShellWindows = objShell.Windows

  If objShellWindows.Count = 0 Then
      WScript.Echo "Can not find any opend tabs in Internet Explorer."
  Else
      Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

      Set objExportFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(filename, ForWriting, True)

      For Each objItem In objShellWindows
          FileFullName = objItem.FullName
          objFile = objFSO.GetFile(objItem.FullName)
          objFileName = objFSO.GetFileName(objFile)

          If LCase(objFileName) = "iexplore.exe" Then
              LocationURL = objItem.LocationURL
              'LocationName = objItem.LocationName
              objExportFile.WriteLine LocationURL
          End If
      Next
  End If
End Sub
VBEND

Let>out_file=C:\temp\IEurls.txt
DeleteFile>out_file
VBRun>GetURLs,out_file

Set the path of out_file to your preference.

[newuser]

What if I want to change it to get all the urls in google chrome or firefox and write it into a file, any idea how I could do that?

Can anyone show me how its done, thank you.

[Marcus Tettmar]

The code provided works only with IE. IE offers a very convenient API which can be used to get the data you're after and hook into the html elements. Chrome and FF not so much, at least not one we currently have access to.