CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonweb-scrapingpython-requests-html
Ibtsam Ahmad
Ibtsam Ahmad

Reputation: 421

How to wait to page to fully load using requests_html

While accessing this link https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/f/tents-accessories?pageNumber=2 with requests_html, i need to wait to wait some time before the page actually loads. Is it possible with this? My code:

from requests_html import HTMLSession
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from lxml import etree

s = HTMLSession()
response = s.get(
    'https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/f/tents-accessories?pageNumber=2')
response.html.render()


soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, "html.parser")
dom = etree.HTML(str(soup))
item = dom.xpath('//a[@class="rs_product_description d-block"]/text()')[0]
print(item)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4064

Answers (2)

balderman
balderman

Reputation: 23815

It looks like the data you are looking for can be fetched using HTTP GET to
https://prod-catalog-product-api.dickssportinggoods.com/v2/search?searchVO=%7B%22selectedCategory%22%3A%2212301_1809051%22%2C%22selectedStore%22%3A%220%22%2C%22selectedSort%22%3A1%2C%22selectedFilters%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22storeId%22%3A15108%2C%22pageNumber%22%3A2%2C%22pageSize%22%3A48%2C%22totalCount%22%3A112%2C%22searchTypes%22%3A%5B%22PINNING%22%5D%2C%22isFamilyPage%22%3Atrue%2C%22appliedSeoFilters%22%3Afalse%2C%22snbAudience%22%3A%22%22%2C%22zipcode%22%3A%22%22%7D

The call will return a JSON and you can use that direcly with zero scraping code.

Copy/Paste the URL into the browser --> see the data.

You can specify the page number in the url:

searchVO={"selectedCategory":"12301_1809051","selectedStore":"0","selectedSort":1,"selectedFilters":{},"storeId":15108,"pageNumber":2,"pageSize":48,"totalCount":112,"searchTypes":["PINNING"],"isFamilyPage":true,"appliedSeoFilters":false,"snbAudience":"","zipcode":""}

working code below

import requests
import pprint

page_num = 2
url = f'https://prod-catalog-product-api.dickssportinggoods.com/v2/search?searchVO=%7B%22selectedCategory%22%3A%2212301_1809051%22%2C%22selectedStore%22%3A%220%22%2C%22selectedSort%22%3A1%2C%22selectedFilters%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22storeId%22%3A15108%2C%22pageNumber%22%3A2%2C%2{page_num}pageSize%22%3A48%2C%22totalCount%22%3A112%2C%22searchTypes%22%3A%5B%22PINNING%22%5D%2C%22isFamilyPage%22%3Atrue%2C%22appliedSeoFilters%22%3Afalse%2C%22snbAudience%22%3A%22%22%2C%22zipcode%22%3A%22%22%7D'

r = requests.get(url)
if r.status_code == 200:
    pprint.pprint(r.json())

Upvotes: 0

cruisepandey
cruisepandey

Reputation: 29362

You can induce Selenium as well in headless mode.

Selenium has the capability to wait unit elements are found with Explicit waits.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--window-size=1920,1080')
options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = driver_path, options = options)
driver.get("URL here")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='rs_product_description d-block']")))

PS: You'd have to download chromedriver from here

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions