How can I get a url from Chrome by Python?

Just to summarize all the comments in one answer...

pywinauto 0.5.4 is not able to get the URL from Chrome without tricks like TypeKeys and clipboard grabbing. Coming pywinauto 0.6.0 will be able to do that right way.

Just use connect instead of start in case Chrome is already running.

I would also recommend TypeKeys("^c", set_foreground=False) since the URL is already focused after {F6} and focus may switch to the main window.

Application().connect(title=u'How can I get a url from Chrome by Python? - Stack Overflow - Google Chrome', found_index=0) is also better because the title should be unique. In case there are 2 windows found_index=0 or 1 is useful.

To get the clipboard data:

from pywinauto import clipboardprint(clipboard.GetData())

If all you want is to paste what you have in the clipboard to a string you could use one of the packages pyperclip or clipboard, which both are pip-installable.

import pyperclipprint(pyperclip.paste())#or equivalently...import clipboardprint(clipboard.paste())

will give output 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35475103/how-can-i-get-a-url-from-chrome-by-python' (twice...) if I copy the url for this page.