macOS Getting link URLs from WebView

[Thethuthinang]

Hi,
Is there an easy way to get the URLs to links shown in a WebView? I would like to get them as a list so I could choose one at random. And, I would also like to know if I could get the URL to a link my mouse is hovering over.
Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[kainjow]

Is there an easy way to get the URLs to links shown in a WebView?

You can walk/search the DOM tree and look for anchor elements and grab their href attributes. Look at the DOMDocument method.

And, I would also like to know if I could get the URL to a link my mouse is hovering over.

This delegate method may help:
webView:mouseDidMoveOverElement:modifierFlags:

 

[Thethuthinang]

Thanks, I'll look into it!

 

[Thethuthinang]

I began this thread not knowing what a DOMDocument was. After researching this, I am led to believe that there is not much documentation on this (?). I started looking the header files in the WebKit framework. I think that the DOMTreeView example included with XCode may also be a good resource. Does anyone have anything to add to this?