Web Scraping Using Selenium - Navigation Using Script Execution

Selenium Navigation - Using Javascript

Navigations in selenium can be done in different ways. In this tutorial, we will invoke a script to navigate to a different page.

But before that, please make sure you have read the first blog on this series to do the prerequisites.

Selenium Navigation Executing a Script

1. Create a file seleniumnavscript.py and paste the following codes

   from selenium import webdriver
   import time
   

   The codes above imports the required library that we will use.
2. Add this line

   driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path="geckodriver.exe")
   

   The code above will create a webdriver instance for Firefox.
3. Add this line

   driver.execute_script("window.location.href='https://slackingslacker.github.io/seleniumindex#/about';")
   

   The line will execute a script to go to the webpage https://slackingslacker.github.io/seleniumindex#/about.
4. Add this line

   time.sleep(10)
   

   We will pause the program for 10 seconds so that you can see that the page loaded.
5. Add this line

   driver.close()
   

   The line will close the webdriver as well as the browser.
6. Run the seleniumnavscript.py. It should do the following:
   • Open the firefox browser
   • Execute a script to navigate to a page
   • Halts for 10 seconds
   • Closes the browser

 

Final Selenium Code

from selenium import webdriver
import time

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path="geckodriver.exe")
driver.execute_script("window.location.href='https://slackingslacker.github.io/seleniumindex#/about';")
time.sleep(10)

driver.close()

 

Conclusion

Navigation in selenium can be done using script execution.