Reputation: 119
i was trying to scrape this website. the process i followed was search a user click the first user and get information about him/her. after i clicked the user it is opening a new tab, so how can i get the information in the newly opened tab.
the code that i have written so far
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:/Users/XXX/chromewebdriver/chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.tracksellers.com/')
search = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='desktop-seller-search']")))
search.click()
word = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='d-seller-autocomplete']")))
word.send_keys('james')
searchdiv = word = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='d-seller-autocomplete-box']")))
searchresult = searchdiv.find_element_by_id('list')
searchresult = searchresult.find_elements_by_tag_name('li')
searchresult[0].click()
# the above code search's for a user and click on the first user
# next steps i tried
driver.window_handles
# gives me the below output
['CDwindow-70F83E4DCEB9D746B96FD9D965FC1BF7',
'CDwindow-87428C4E8AF3614CFE2C461A0B3AE765']
# trying to get the current tab by using this code, but it gives only the first tab
driver.current_window_handle
# output
'CDwindow-70F83E4DCEB9D746B96FD9D965FC1BF7'
How can i switch from one tab to another tab and access tags and other things.
Upvotes: 2
Views: 866
Reputation: 1
maintab = driver.current_window_handle
for handle in driver.window_handles:
if handle != main_page:
othertab = handle
driver.switch_to.window(othertab)
After this you can use your code on tab2 Also ,with this code you can switch back to your main tab using
driver.switch_to.window(maintab)
again
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 29382
It's in a new tab so you would need to switch the driver focus to the newly opened tab :
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1])
You need to write this code right after the click on first page.
Upvotes: 3