get url from mozilla

[28poGNh0]

Hello everyone

Does anyone know a function/way to get the url from mozilla navigator
for expamle :

string getUrl()
{
// codes
return strURL;
}

output : http://www.cplusplus.com/

Thanks for reading

[poteto]

No function.
You can build Mozilla from source code, and whenever the url changes update it into a txt file. Then you can create a program that checks that txt file in real time if it changes.

[ModShop]

What is this for? If you're creating a plugin then there's a whole library for interfacing with the browser that you can use, but if you're creating a completely separate application then interfacing with the browser will be trickier and rather hackish.

[28poGNh0]

Thanks a lot @poteto @ModShop

What I am trying to do is : to grab all the websites that I visited during my net surfing. And I want results like this

14:14 15/12/1014 - http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/myposts.cgi
14:15 15/12/1014 - http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/151038/

Thats the task of the program

also you're putting a lot of good ideas that I would to ask some questions about
it later

any new infos appreciated thanks again

[MiiNiPaa]

Why not just export history as text file? Write addon which will read history, format it as you need and dump it in a file.

[28poGNh0]

Thanks @MiiNiPaa

How can do that ? How to write an addon?

[MiiNiPaa]

I suggest to look at https://developer.mozilla.org/
Alo search for avaliable addons in open source, study them and look how are they made.

[Computergeek01]

@ OP: The user history will be in "%AppData%\mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.default\places.sqlite" . If you couldn't tell, this is an SQLite document so check this out: http://www.sqlite.org/index.html . That to me would be the most direct route to accomplish what you are describing in C++. Don't get me wrong XPCOM and XPIDL look interesting, and they are on my list of things to bang my head on a wall over, but IPC really isn't a beginner topic. XPCOM: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Language_Bindings
. Other then that, development for Mozilla projects tend to favor JavaScripts.