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sinG20
sinG20

Reputation: 151

How to close auto opened tabs in selenium before opening the next new tab?

Upon collecting various links in a page, i click on those and collect it into a soup. Now the issue is, links are opened in a new tab. I want to close the tab before the code opens the next link in a new tab. Below is the code snippet. Please help me to close each tab after collecting the soup.

I use python 3.7 selenium chromedriver

# collecting results from page 1 only.
candidate_name = []
candidate_links = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//a[@data-tn-element='resume-result-link[]']")
for candidates in candidate_links:
    candidate_name.append(candidates.text)
    candidates.click()
    time.sleep(3)
    html_content = driver.page_source
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser')
    text = soup.getText()

    candidates.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL+'w')
    #write it to a text file
    for i in candidate_name:
        path = r'c:/users/user/desktop/resumes1/'+ i
        with open(path, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
            file.write(text)

time.sleep(5)
assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source
driver.quit()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 762

Answers (1)

sinG20
sinG20

Reputation: 151

Simple code worked for me as below. Closed the tabs before opening the next one.

# switch to the tab
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[-1])

# do whatever in the tab
time.sleep(5)

# close the tab
driver.close()

#switch back to the main window again
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[0])

Upvotes: 1

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