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RedVelvet
RedVelvet

Reputation: 1913

Infinite Scroll on Quora using Selenium in Python and Javascript

I try to handle the "infinite scrolling" in Quora website. I use selenium lib with Python after trying to use the send_keys methods i try to run Javascript command in order to scroll down the page.

It doesn't working when i run the code, but if i try to run in the firefox console it's work. How can i fix this problem? and it's possibile use PhantomJs?

def scrapying(self):
    print platform.system()

        browser = webdriver.Firefox()
        #browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path='/usr/local/bin/node_modules/phantomjs/lib/phantom/bin/phantomjs')

    browser.get("https://www.quora.com/C-programming-language")
    #browser.get("https://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?sid=396545660")
    time.sleep(10)

    #elem = browser.find_element_by_class_name("topic_page content contents main_content fixed_header ContentWrapper")
    no_of_pagedowns = 500

    while no_of_pagedowns:
        #elem.send_keys(Keys.SPACE)
        browser.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")
        time.sleep(0.5)
        no_of_pagedowns -= 1

    browser.quit()






myClassObject = getFrom()
myClassObject.scrapying()

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1432

Answers (2)

Jocelyn Jeriah
Jocelyn Jeriah

Reputation: 1

I'm also not able to trigger the infinite scroll to work using this while using Firefox. The gist of the code works in the console, however:

for i in range(0, 5):
    self.driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")
    time.sleep(3)

Upvotes: 0

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 474041

One of the options would be to recursively scroll into view of the last loaded post on a page:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.quora.com/C-programming-language")

NUM_POSTS = 200
posts = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("div.pagedlist_item")

while len(posts) < NUM_POSTS:
    driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", posts[-1])

    posts = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("div.pagedlist_item")

    print(len(posts))

And it would scroll the page down until, at least, NUM_POSTS posts are loaded.

Upvotes: 4

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