How to get the current address of Safari's address bar with AppleScript

Question

I want to read the address out of the address bar of a safari window with AppleScript.

One can use keystroke-simulating with cmd+l, cmd+c and subsequently read out the clipboard. But this is obviously a very ugly hack.

Answer 1

Something like this should work to get the URL of the active tab in the last used window;

tell application "Safari"
    set w to first window
    set t to current tab of w
    display dialog (URL of t as string)
end tell