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Get IE favorites

By Zarko Gajic, About.com

The GetIEFavourites function called from the OnClick event of a button returns a list of all the favorites from your Internet Explorer in a ListBox.

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function GetIEFavourites
(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;
  try
   path:=FavPath+'\*.url';
   dir:=ExtractFilepath(path) ;
   found:=FindFirst(path,faAnyFile,searchrec) ;
   while found=0 do begin
    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(GetIEFavourites
                 (dir+'\'+searchrec.name)) ;
    found:=FindNext(searchrec) ;
   end;
   FindClose(searchrec) ;
  finally
   Result:=str;
  end;
end;

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject) ;
var pidl: PItemIDList;
     FavPath: array[0..MAX_PATH] of char;
begin
  SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(Handle, CSIDL_FAVORITES, pidl) ;
  SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl, favpath) ;
  ListBox1.Items:=GetIEFavourites(StrPas(FavPath)) ;
end;
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