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Getting text from multiple webpages(Pagination) in selenium python

I wanted to extract text from multiple pages. Currently, I am able to extract data from the first page but I want to append and go to muliple pages and extract the data from pagination. I have written this simple code which extracts data from the first page. I am not able to extract the data from multiple pages which is dynamic in number.
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element_list = []
opts = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
opts.headless = True
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
base_url = "XYZ"
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get(base_url)
driver.set_page_load_timeout(50)
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 50).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'all-my-groups')))
l = []
l = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[contains(#class, 'alias-wrapper sim-ellipsis sim-list--shortId')]")
for i in l:
print(i.text)
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I have shared the images of class if this could help from pagination.
If we could extract the automate and extract from all the pages that would be awesome. Also, I am new so please pardon me for asking silly questions. Thanks in advance.

You have provided the code just for the previous page button. I guess you need to go to the next page until next page exists. As I don't know what site we are talking about I can only guess its behavior. So I'm assuming the button 'next' disappears when no next page exists. If so, it can be done like this:
element_list = []
opts = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
opts.headless = True
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
base_url = "XYZ"
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get(base_url)
driver.set_page_load_timeout(50)
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 50).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'all-my-groups')))
l = []
l = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[contains(#class, 'alias-wrapper sim-ellipsis sim-list--shortId')]")
while True:
try:
next_page = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//button[#label="Next page"]')
except NoSuchElementException:
break
next_page.click()
l.extend(driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//div[contains(#class, 'alias-wrapper sim-ellipsis sim-list--shortId')]"))
for i in l:
print(i.text)
To be able to catch the exception this import has to be added:
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
Also note that the method find_elements_by_xpath is deprecated and it would be better to replace this line:
l = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[contains(#class, 'alias-wrapper sim-ellipsis sim-list--shortId')]")
by this one:
l = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//div[contains(#class, 'alias-wrapper sim-ellipsis sim-list--shortId')]")

Python Selenium: loading next page(s) url but would always first load the first page then switches over

I'm currently trying to scrape data information from this website. My issue right now is that although it can loop to the next pages, it can't seem to retrieve data information from those pages (it keeps retrieving data from page 1).
I have tried using implicitly wait and time to let the pages load but it's not working.
I notice that whenever I load a page (for example, the second page : https://www.zoocasa.com/toronto-on-sold-listings?page=2), it would also first load the page 1 and then switches over to the second page.
Is there anyway where I can wait until the page is fully loaded and no modifications are made before I fetch the data?
Below is the code of what I currently have.
def get_reference_links(self, page = 5):
addresses = []
reference_links = []
for page_number in tqdm(range(1, page + 1)):
search_url = "https://www.zoocasa.com/toronto-on-sold-listings?page=" + str(page_number)
self.driver.get(search_url)
self.driver.implicitly_wait(20)
time.sleep(5)
# Need to fix and let page load completely first
test = self.wait.until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, '//a[#itemprop="streetAddress"]')))
for address in test:
addresses.append(address.text)
reference_links.append(address.get_attribute('href'))
df = pd.DataFrame(list(zip(addresses, reference_links)),
columns = ['Address', 'Reference Link'])
self.dfs.append(df)
merged_dfs = pd.concat(self.dfs)
return merged_dfs
And here is a snapshot of the results.
Sample result. You can see that the Address 129 Davenport Rd (shown on the first page) is repeated every time.

The algorithm here can be as following:
On the first page get some anchor element and keep it.
For every non-first page wait until previously kept element no more exists. Now you know the page is reloaded. Keep a new anchor element and continue. Something like this:
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
def get_reference_links(self, page = 5):
addresses = []
reference_links = []
content = ""
anchor_xpath = "//img[contains(#class,'style_component')]"
for page_number in tqdm(range(1, page + 1)):
search_url = "https://www.zoocasa.com/toronto-on-sold-listings?page=" + str(page_number)
self.driver.get(search_url)
time.sleep(5)
# Need to fix and let page load completely first
if(page_number ==1):
content = driver.find_element_by_xpath(anchor_xpath)
else:
WebDriverWait(driver, timeout).until(EC.staleness_of(content))
content = driver.find_element_by_xpath(anchor_xpath)
test = self.wait.until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, '//a[#itemprop="streetAddress"]')))
for address in test:
addresses.append(address.text)
reference_links.append(address.get_attribute('href'))
df = pd.DataFrame(list(zip(addresses, reference_links)),
columns = ['Address', 'Reference Link'])
self.dfs.append(df)
merged_dfs = pd.concat(self.dfs)
return merged_dfs
The above logic done with use of explicit wait, expected conditions. This is the way you should use here. Not implicitly waits.

Python - Selenium next page

I am trying to make a scraping application to scrape Hants.gov.uk and right now I am working on it just clicking the pages instead of scraping. When it gets to the last row on page 1 it just stopped, so what I did was make it click button "Next Page" but first it has to go back to the original URL. It clicks page 2, but after page 2 is scraped it doesn't go to page 3, it just restarts page 2.
Can somebody help me fix this issue?
Code:
import time
import config # Don't worry about this. This is an external file to make a DB
import urllib.request
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver
url = "https://planning.hants.gov.uk/SearchResults.aspx?RecentDecisions=True"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Users\Goten\Desktop\chromedriver.exe")
driver.get(url)
driver.find_element_by_id("mainContentPlaceHolder_btnAccept").click()
def start():
elements = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(".searchResult a")
links = [link.get_attribute("href") for link in elements]
result = []
for link in links:
if link not in result:
result.append(link)
else:
driver.get(link)
goUrl = urllib.request.urlopen(link)
soup = BeautifulSoup(goUrl.read(), "html.parser")
#table = soup.find_element_by_id("table", {"class": "applicationDetails"})
for i in range(20):
pass # Don't worry about all this commented code, it isn't relevant right now
#table = soup.find_element_by_id("table", {"class": "applicationDetails"})
#print(table.text)
# div = soup.select("div.applicationDetails")
# getDiv = div[i].split(":")[1].get_text()
# log = open("log.txt", "a")
# log.write(getDiv + "\n")
#log.write("\n")
start()
driver.get(url)
for i in range(5):
driver.find_element_by_id("ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_lvResults_bottomPager_ctl02_NextButton").click()
url = driver.current_url
start()
driver.get(url)
driver.close()

try this:
import time
# import config # Don't worry about this. This is an external file to make a DB
import urllib.request
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver
url = "https://planning.hants.gov.uk/SearchResults.aspx?RecentDecisions=True"
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(url)
driver.find_element_by_id("mainContentPlaceHolder_btnAccept").click()
result = []
def start():
elements = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(".searchResult a")
links = [link.get_attribute("href") for link in elements]
result.extend(links)
def start2():
for link in result:
# if link not in result:
# result.append(link)
# else:
driver.get(link)
goUrl = urllib.request.urlopen(link)
soup = BeautifulSoup(goUrl.read(), "html.parser")
#table = soup.find_element_by_id("table", {"class": "applicationDetails"})
for i in range(20):
pass # Don't worry about all this commented code, it isn't relevant right now
#table = soup.find_element_by_id("table", {"class": "applicationDetails"})
#print(table.text)
# div = soup.select("div.applicationDetails")
# getDiv = div[i].split(":")[1].get_text()
# log = open("log.txt", "a")
# log.write(getDiv + "\n")
#log.write("\n")
while True:
start()
element = driver.find_element_by_class_name('rdpPageNext')
try:
check = element.get_attribute('onclick')
if check != "return false;":
element.click()
else:
break
except:
break
print(result)
start2()
driver.get(url)

As per the url https://planning.hants.gov.uk/SearchResults.aspx?RecentDecisions=True to click through all the pages you can use the following solution:
Code Block:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
options = Options()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument("disable-infobars")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://planning.hants.gov.uk/SearchResults.aspx?RecentDecisions=True')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "mainContentPlaceHolder_btnAccept"))).click()
numLinks = len(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div#ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_lvResults_topPager div.rdpWrap.rdpNumPart>a"))))
print(numLinks)
for i in range(numLinks):
print("Perform your scrapping here on page {}".format(str(i+1)))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[#id='ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_lvResults_topPager']//div[#class='rdpWrap rdpNumPart']//a[#class='rdpCurrentPage']/span//following::span[1]"))).click()
driver.quit()
Console Output:
8
Perform your scrapping here on page 1
Perform your scrapping here on page 2
Perform your scrapping here on page 3
Perform your scrapping here on page 4
Perform your scrapping here on page 5
Perform your scrapping here on page 6
Perform your scrapping here on page 7
Perform your scrapping here on page 8

hi #Feitan Portor you have written the code absolutely perfect the only reason that you are redirected back to the first page is because you have given url = driver.current_url in the last for loop where it is the url that remains static and only the java script that instigates the next click event so just remove url = driver.current_url and driver.get(url)
and you are good to go i have tested my self
also to get the current page that your scraper is in just add this part in the for loop so you will get to know where your scraper is :
ss = driver.find_element_by_class_name('rdpCurrentPage').text
print(ss)
Hope this solves your confusion

navigating through pagination with selenium in python

I'm scraping this website using Python and Selenium. I have the code working but it currently only scrapes the first page, I would like to iterate through all the pages and scrape them all but they handle pagination in a weird way how would I go through the pages and scrape them one by one?
Pagination HTML:
<div class="pagination">
First
Prev
1
<span class="current">2</span>
3
4
Next
Last
</div>
Scraper:
import re
import json
import requests
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
# options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument('disable-infobars')
driver=webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options,
executable_path=r'/Users/weaabduljamac/Downloads/chromedriver')
url = 'https://services.wiltshire.gov.uk/PlanningGIS/LLPG/WeeklyList'
driver.get(url)
def getData():
data = []
rows = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="form1"]/table/tbody').find_elements_by_tag_name('tr')
for row in rows:
app_number = row.find_elements_by_tag_name('td')[1].text
address = row.find_elements_by_tag_name('td')[2].text
proposals = row.find_elements_by_tag_name('td')[3].text
status = row.find_elements_by_tag_name('td')[4].text
data.append({"CaseRef": app_number, "address": address, "proposals": proposals, "status": status})
print(data)
return data
def main():
all_data = []
select = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//select[#class='formitem' and #id='selWeek']"))
list_options = select.options
for item in range(len(list_options)):
select = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//select[#class='formitem' and #id='selWeek']"))
select.select_by_index(str(item))
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input.formbutton#csbtnSearch").click()
all_data.extend( getData() )
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="form1"]/div[3]/a[4]').click()
driver.get(url)
with open( 'wiltshire.json', 'w+' ) as f:
json.dump( all_data, f )
driver.quit()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()

Before moving on to automating any scenario, always write down the manual steps you would perform to execute the scenario. Manual steps for what you want to (which I understand from the question) is -
1) Go to site - https://services.wiltshire.gov.uk/PlanningGIS/LLPG/WeeklyList
2) Select first week option
3) Click search
4) Get the data from every page
5) Load the url again
6) Select second week option
7) Click search
8) Get the data from every page
.. and so on.
You are having a loop to select different weeks but inside each loop iteration for the week option, you also need to include a loop to iterate over all the pages. Since you are not doing that, your code is returning only the data from the first page.
Another problem is with how you are locaing the 'Next' button -
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="form1"]/div[3]/a[4]').click()
You are selecting the 4th <a> element which is ofcourse not robust because in different pages, the Next button's index will be different. Instead, use this better locator -
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Next')]").click()
Logic for creating loop which will iterate through pages -
First you will need the number of pages. I did that by locating the <a> immediately before the "Next" button. As per the screenshot below, it is clear that the text of this element will be equal to the number of pages -
-
I did that using following code -
number_of_pages = int(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Next')]/preceding-sibling::a[1]").text)
Now once you have number of pages as number_of_pages, you only need to click "Next" button number_of_pages - 1 times!
Final code for your main function-
def main():
all_data = []
select = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//select[#class='formitem' and #id='selWeek']"))
list_options = select.options
for item in range(len(list_options)):
select = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//select[#class='formitem' and #id='selWeek']"))
select.select_by_index(str(item))
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input.formbutton#csbtnSearch").click()
number_of_pages = int(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Next')]/preceding-sibling::a[1]").text)
for j in range(number_of_pages - 1):
all_data.extend(getData())
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Next')]").click()
time.sleep(1)
driver.get(url)
with open( 'wiltshire.json', 'w+' ) as f:
json.dump( all_data, f )
driver.quit()

Following approach is simply worked for me.
driver.find_element_by_link_text("3").click()
driver.find_element_by_link_text("4").click()
....
driver.find_element_by_link_text("Next").click()

first get the total pages in the pagination, using
ins.get('https://services.wiltshire.gov.uk/PlanningGIS/LLPG/WeeklyList/10702380,1')
ins.find_element_by_class_name("pagination")
source = BeautifulSoup(ins.page_source)
div = source.find_all('div', {'class':'pagination'})
all_as = div[0].find_all('a')
total = 0
for i in range(len(all_as)):
if 'Next' in all_as[i].text:
total = all_as[i-1].text
break
Now just loop through the range
for i in range(total):
ins.get('https://services.wiltshire.gov.uk/PlanningGIS/LLPG/WeeklyList/10702380,{}'.format(count))
keep incrementing the count and get the source code for the page and then get the data for it.
Note: Don't forget the sleep when clicking on going form one page to another

Selenium/Python - Lag In Code?

I wrote some code to extract Insider Trading information from the Toronto Stock Exchange. Using Selenium, open up this link and then, using a list of stocks, one by one input each into the form, retrieve the data and put it into another list, then do the same for the next stock.
Here is the code:
from selenium import webdriver
stocks = ['RKN','MG','GTE','IMO','REI.UN','RY']
dt = []
url = 'https://app.tmxmoney.com/research/insidertradesummaries?locale=EN'
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get(url)
search = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//ul[#class="nav nav-pills"]/li[3]')
search.click()
stock_form = driver.find_element_by_name('text')
for stock in stocks:
stock_form.clear()
stock_form.send_keys(stock)
stock_form.submit()
data = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[#class="insider-trades-symbol-search-container"]/div[#class="ng-binding"]')
a = data.text.split('\n')
if len(a) > 1:
dt.append(a[-1].split())
else:
dt.append([])
driver.close()
If you run the code, you can see each stock being input into the form, the data will pop up and I attempt to retrieve it. However, when I get the text from "data", its as if its retrieved from what was visible on the page prior to submitting the form. I tried adding a wait to the code to no avail.

added a time.sleep(1) and the code works as intended.
from selenium import webdriver
import time
stocks = ['RKN','MG','GTE','IMO','REI.UN','RY']
dt = []
url = 'https://app.tmxmoney.com/research/insidertradesummaries?locale=EN'
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get(url)
search = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//ul[#class="nav nav-pills"]/li[3]')
search.click()
stock_form = driver.find_element_by_name('text')
for stock in stocks:
stock_form.clear()
stock_form.send_keys(stock)
stock_form.submit()
data = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[#class="insider-trades-symbol-search-container"]/div[#class="ng-binding"]')
a = data.text.split('\n')
**time.sleep(1)**
if len(a) > 1:
dt.append(a[-1].split())
else:
dt.append([])
driver.close()