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how to get new page's source code in selenium with python

Let's say there is a page and there is a "next page" button in it.
browser is initialized using webdriver.Chrome(chrome_driver_path).
I use page_source attribute to get the orginal page's source code and locate the button for next page. Then I send click to it, the browser will turn to next page in the same tab in Chrome.
browser.get(origin_page_url)
browser.find_element_by_xpath(btn_xpath).click()
time.sleep(5)
After above codes then I call page_source again, but what I get is the same as the original page's source code.
How can I get the newly opened page's source code?

You need to explicitly wait for the new page to load before getting the page source. This usually depends on the webpage you are working with. For instance, you may wait until a particular element becomes visible:
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "myXpath")))
element.click();
After that call page_source
Import
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
I have not tested this but, sure this will work for you.

Selenium cant find element on Javascript page

I am still quite new to python and selenium, However have managed to get quite far with what I am doing. But I appear to now be stuck. The page in question is an internal business page. I have tried using ID, name and XPATH with very little success.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains
import time
PATH = r"C:\Users\p819364\Downloads\chromedriver.exe"
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--ignore-ssl-errors=yes')
options.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH, options=options)
driver.get("https://10.47.31.102/3/Login")
driver.implicitly_wait(15)
print (driver.title)
username = driver.find_element(By.NAME, value='j_username')
username.send_keys("username")
password = driver.find_element(By.NAME, value='j_password')
password.send_keys("password")
password.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
driver.implicitly_wait(20)
Settings = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, value="//*[#id='evo_widget_TBFisheyeItem_4']")
Settings.click()
driver.implicitly_wait(20)
Filter = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, value="//*[#id='tableForm:authenticationPolicyTable:tableActions']")
driver.implicitly_wait(20)
Filter.click()
The problem I am having is with the filter, I think it may be because this is a page within a page. I am sorry I cannot share the page as its internal. But I need to be able to click the filter and click and options
I keep getting the following error
Message: no such element; Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":["//*[#id='tableForm:authenticationPolicyTable:tableActions']"
The XPATH is as follows:
//*[#id="tableForm:authenticationPolicyTable:tableActions"]
This is the full XPATH (which I have tried):
/html/body/form[3]/table/thead/tr[1]/th/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/select
I appreciate any help given and I also am not sure if its caused this because the field I want to select is not in view until I scroll. However I cannot seem to scroll as the element is within another as pictured
Thanks
Edit:
The iFrame was stopping it i had to switch to it first
iframe = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#id='consoleCanvas']")
driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)

I think if the page is within page then you need to check if that element is within iframe. If iframe is there then you should first switch to frame and then click on filter. If you can post html code then it will be easy to understand issue.

HTML page seems to add iframe element when opening chrome by selenium in python

I am new to selenium and web automation tasks, and I am trying to code an application for automating papers search on PubMed, using chromedriver.
My aim is to click the top right "Sign in" button in the PubMed main page, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed. So the problem is:
when I open PubMed main page manually, there are no iframes tags in the html source, and therefore the "Sign in" element should be simply accessible by its xpath "//*[#id="sign_in"]".
when same page is openened by selenium instead, I cannot find that "Sign in" element by its xpath, and if a try to inspect it, the html source seems to have embedded it in an <iframe> tag, so that it cannot be found anymore unless a driver._switch_to.frame method is executed. But if I open the html source code by Ctrl+Uand search for <iframe> element, there is still none of them. Here is the "Sign in" element inspection capture:
["Sign in" inspection][1]
I already got round this problem by:
bot = PubMedBot()
bot.driver.get('https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed')
sleep(2)
frames = bot.driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('iframe')
bot.driver._switch_to.frame(frames[0])
btn = bot.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/a')
btn.click()
But all I would like to understand is why the inspection code is different from the html source code, whether this <iframe> element is really appearing from nowhere, and if so why.
Thank you in advance.

You are facing issue due to synchronization .Kinddly find below solution to resolve your issue:
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"path ofchromedriver.exe")
driver.maximize_window()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
driver.get("https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed")
iframe = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.TAG_NAME, "iframe")))
driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[contains(text(), 'Sign in to NCBI')]"))).click()
Output:
Inspect element:

Selenium can't locate the element, a search button using xpath

I can't find a solution how this element cannot be found by using a selenium xpath. Other button on other websites always working just fine. Usually what I would normally do is, just open up a page and inspect the element and I would right click it and copy the xpath. Done.
But this website, www.gsc.com.my (a malaysian cinema booking site). Seems not able to find the button. Is it protected by another security layer?
Lets see the code below,
from selenium import webdriver
chromedriver_path = './chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver_path)
driver.get('https://www.gsc.com.my')
driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[#id="btnNext"]""").click()
The error Message:
no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[#id="btnNext"]"}

Button is located inside an iframe, so you need to switch to that frame before clicking the button:
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait as wait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
driver.switch_to.frame('getQuickFilter_ctrl_ifrBox')
wait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "btnNext"))).click()

Because there are two elements with id btnNext, you'll have to specify which of them using an index, 1 for the first, 2 for the second.
driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[#id="btnNext"][1]""").click()

You can try with this css selector :
div.container input#btnNext
Note that you will need to switch to iframe first , cause the check button is in a iframe.
For switching to iframe :
driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_id("getQuickFilter_ctrl_ifrBox"))
and for clicking on check Button
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
check_button = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.container input#btnNext")))
check_button.click()

Webscrape Flashscore with Python/Selenium

I started to learn scrape websites with Python and Selenium. I choose selenium because I need to navigate through the website and I also have to login.
I wrote an script that is able to open a firefox window and it opens the website www.flashscore.com. With this script I also be able to login and navigate to the different sports section (main menu) they have.
The code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
# open website
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.flashscore.com")
# login
driver.find_element_by_id('signIn').click()
username = driver.find_element_by_id("email")
password = driver.find_element_by_id("passwd")
username.send_keys("*****")
password.send_keys("*****")
driver.find_element_by_name("login").click()
# go to the tennis section
link = driver.find_element_by_link_text('Tennis')
link.click()
#go to the live games tab in the tennis section
# ?????????????????????????????'
Then it went more difficult. I also want to navigate to, for example, the sections "live games" and "finished" tabs in the sports sector. This part wouldn't work. I tried many things but I can't get into one of this tabs. When analyzing the website I see that they use some Iframes. I also find some code to switch to a Iframes window. But the problem is, I can't find the name of the Iframe where the tabs are that I want to click on. Maybe the Iframes are not the problem and do I look to the wrong way. (Maybe the problem is caused by some javascript?)
Can anybody please help me with this?

No, the iframes are not the problem in this case. The "Live games" element is not inside an iframe. Locate it by link text and click:
live_games_link = driver.find_element_by_link_text("LIVE Games")
live_games_link.click()
You may need to wait for this link to be clickable before actually trying to click it:
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
live_games_link = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "LIVE Games")))
live_games_link.click()