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current_url driver method - Selenium Python

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. To open a webpage using Selenium Python, checkout –

Navigating links using get method – Selenium Python

. Just being able to go to places isn’t terribly useful. What we’d really like to do is to interact with the pages, or, more specifically, the HTML elements within a page. There are multiple strategies to find an element using Selenium, checkout –

Locating Strategies

. Selenium WebDriver offers various useful methods to control the session, or in other words, browser. For example, adding a cookie, pressing back button, navigating among tabs, etc. This article revolves around

current_url

driver method in Selenium.

current_url

method gets current URL of the current page.

Syntax -
driver.current_url
Example -

Now one can use current_url method as a driver method as below -

diver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")
driver.current_url
How to use current_url driver method in Selenium Python ?

To demonstrate,

current_url

method of WebDriver in Selenium Python. Let' s visit https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ and operate on driver object. Let's get current_url,

Program - Python3
# import webdriver
from selenium import webdriver

# create webdriver object
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

# get geeksforgeeks.org
driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")

# get current url
print(driver.current_url)
Output -

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Terminal output -

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