Cannot pass contents of Chrome address bar to Automator workflow

Question

For some time now, I have been using a keyboard shortcut to grab the selected text inside the address bar in Google Chrome and pass it to a Service (now called a Quick Action):

Sometime last week, I noticed that this workflow no longer receives input from the Chrome address bar. If I paste the address bar contents into Notes and select it, or select it inside Firefox and then press my keyboard shortcut the workflow still runs.

How can I access the contents of the Chrome address bar via my workflow?

Answer 1

This works for me using the latest version of macOS Mojave and Google Chrome.

Adding this following code to a run AppleScript action in your workflow, should work for you. The command copies the selected text to the clipboard

delay 1
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using {command down}
delay .5
set theURL to the clipboard