# Getting a URL into flash as a string

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-url-into-flash-as-a-string/175951>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [January 19, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-url-into-flash-as-a-string/175951 "2006-01-19T02:15:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zerojosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/bc8723/32.png) [@Zerojosh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Zerojosh)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-url-into-flash-as-a-string/175951/1 "2006-01-19T02:15:44Z")

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Hey guys,

What I’m trying to do is simply pull the URL from the brower windo and turn it into a string in flash. Is it possible to do this with just javascript and flash? Thanks for the help!

Josh