I have read Wait Until Page is Loaded, How to use Selenium Wait, Explicit Wait and other documentations to wait for a page to load and then start scraping. The wait successfully passes but I still get the same half/incomplete rendered HTML code.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
# prepare the option for the chrome driver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('headless')
# start chrome browser
browser = webdriver.Chrome(options=options,executable_path='C:/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver.exe')
browser.get('https://swappa.com/listing/view/LTNZ94446')
try:
WebDriverWait(browser, 30).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "wrap")))
print(browser.page_source)
except TimeoutException:
print("not found")
For this my output starts somewhere half-way rather than from <html> at the top.
<div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-2 col-md-2">
<div class="img-container" style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<a href="https://static.swappa.com/media/listing/LTNZ94446/mhhHypyw.jpg" class="lightbox">
<img class="img-responsive" src="https://static.swappa.com/images/cache/7b/67/7b679a1d89816bc341a802f19f661eac.jpg" alt="Listing Image" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; ">
</a>
</div>
</div>
I am not sure where is it going wrong.
- It is clearly able to see the presence of element ID. (
<div id="wrap">) since it doesnt throw timeout error - I tried using visibility of element, still no luck
- Tried using readystate as well but no luck.
If there are ways using other libraries such as BeautifulSoup/URLLib/URLlib2/Scrapy, those would be helpful as well