Title: Read the favorites from Internet Explorer
Question: How to read all saved URLs recursively from MSIE !
Answer:
uses shlobj;
...
function GetIEFavorites(const favpath: string):TStrings;
var searchrec:TSearchrec;
str:TStrings;
path,dir,filename:String;
Buffer: array[0..2047] of Char;
found:Integer;
begin
str:=TStringList.Create;
//Get all file names in the favourites path
path:=FavPath+'\*.url';
dir:=ExtractFilepath(path);
found:=FindFirst(path,faAnyFile,searchrec);
while found = 0 do
begin
//Get now URLs from files in variable files
SetString(filename, Buffer,
GetPrivateProfileString('InternetShortcut',
PChar('URL'), NIL, Buffer, SizeOf(Buffer),
PChar(dir+searchrec.Name)));
str.Add(filename);
found := FindNext(searchrec);
end;
found:=FindFirst(dir+'\*.*',faAnyFile,searchrec);
while found=0 do
begin
if ((searchrec.Attr and faDirectory) 0) and
(searchrec.Name[1]'.') then
str.AddStrings(GetIEFavorites(dir+'\'+searchrec.name));
found := FindNext(searchrec);
end;
FindClose(searchrec);
Result:=str;
end;
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var pidl: PItemIDList;
FavPath: array[0..MAX_PATH] of char;
begin
//get the favorites folder
SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(Handle, CSIDL_FAVORITES, pidl);
SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl, favpath);
ListBox1.Items:=GetIEFavorites(StrPas(FavPath));
end;