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How do I make the driver navigate to new page in selenium python

I am trying to write a script to automate job applications on Linkedin using selenium and python.
The steps are simple:
open the LinkedIn page, enter id password and log in
open https://linkedin.com/jobs and enter the search keyword and location and click search(directly opening links like https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?geoId=101452733&keywords=python&location=Australia get stuck as loading, probably due to lack of some post information from the previous page)
the click opens the job search page but this doesn't seem to update the driver as it still searches on the previous page.
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import pandas as pd
import yaml
driver = webdriver.Chrome("/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver")
url = "https://linkedin.com/"
driver.get(url)
content = driver.page_source
stream = open("details.yaml", 'r')
details = yaml.safe_load(stream)
def login():
username = driver.find_element_by_id("session_key")
password = driver.find_element_by_id("session_password")
username.send_keys(details["login_details"]["id"])
password.send_keys(details["login_details"]["password"])
driver.find_element_by_class_name("sign-in-form__submit-button").click()
def get_experience():
return "1%C22"
login()
jobs_url = f'https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/'
driver.get(jobs_url)
keyword = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[starts-with(#id, 'jobs-search-box-keyword-id-ember')]")
location = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[starts-with(#id, 'jobs-search-box-location-id-ember')]")
keyword.send_keys("python")
location.send_keys("Australia")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Search']").click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
# content = driver.page_source
# soup = BeautifulSoup(content)
# with open("a.html", 'w') as a:
# a.write(str(soup))
print(driver.current_url)
driver.current_url returns https://linkedin.com/jobs/ instead of https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?geoId=101452733&keywords=python&location=Australia as it should. I have tried to print the content to a file, it is indeed from the previous jobs page and not from the search page. I have also tried to search elements from page like experience and easy apply button but the search results in a not found error.
I am not sure why this isn't working.
Any ideas? Thanks in Advance
UPDATE
It works if try to directly open something like https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?f_AL=True&f_E=2&keywords=python&location=Australia but not https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?f_AL=True&f_E=1%2C2&keywords=python&location=Australia
the difference in both these links is that one of them takes only one value for experience level while the other one takes two values. This means it's probably not a post values issue.

You are getting and printing the current URL immediately after clicking on the search button, before the page changed with the response received from the server.
This is why it outputs you with https://linkedin.com/jobs/ instead of something like https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?geoId=101452733&keywords=python&location=Australia.
WebDriverWait(driver, 10) or wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20) will not cause any kind of delay like time.sleep(10) does.
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20) only instantiates a wait object, instance of WebDriverWait module / class

Web scraping when scrolling down is needed

I want to scrape, e.g., the title of the first 200 questions under the web page https://www.quora.com/topic/Stack-Overflow-4/all_questions. And I tried the following code:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "https://www.quora.com/topic/Stack-Overflow-4/all_questions"
print("url")
print(url)
r = requests.get(url) # HTTP request
print("r")
print(r)
html_doc = r.text # Extracts the html
print("html_doc")
print(html_doc)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'lxml') # Create a BeautifulSoup object
print("soup")
print(soup)
It gave me a text https://pastebin.com/9dSPzAyX. If we search href='/, we can see that the html does contain title of some questions. However, the problem is that the number is not enough; actually on the web page, a user needs to manually scroll down to trigger extra load.
Does anyone know how I could mimic "scrolling down" by the program to load more content of the page?

Infinite scrolls on a webpage is based on the Javascript functionality. Therefore, to find out what URL we need to access and what parameters to use, we need to either thoroughly study the JS code working inside the page or, and preferably, examine the requests that the browser does when you scroll down the page. We can study requests using the Developer Tools.
See example for quora
the more you scroll down, the more requests generated. so now your requests will be done to that url instead of normal url but keep in mind to send correct headers and playload.
other easier solution will be by using selenium

Couldn't find a response using request. But you can use Selenium. First printed out the number of questions at first load, then send the End key to mimic scrolling down. You can see number of questions went from 20 to 40 after sending the End key.
I used driver.implicitly wait for 5 seconds before loading the DOM again in case the script load to fast before the DOM was loaded. You can improve by using EC with selenium.
The page loads 20 questions per scroll. So if you are looking to scrape 100 questions, then you need to send the End key 5 times.
To use the code below you need to install chromedriver.
http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = ""
CHROME_PATH = ""
WINDOW_SIZE = "1920,1080"
chrome_options = Options()
# chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("--window-size=%s" % WINDOW_SIZE)
chrome_options.binary_location = CHROME_PATH
prefs = {'profile.managed_default_content_settings.images':2}
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)
url = "https://www.quora.com/topic/Stack-Overflow-4/all_questions"
def scrape(url, times):
if not url.startswith('http'):
raise Exception('URLs need to start with "http"')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(
executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER_PATH,
chrome_options=chrome_options
)
driver.get(url)
counter = 1
while counter <= times:
q_list = driver.find_element_by_class_name('TopicAllQuestionsList')
questions = [x for x in q_list.find_elements_by_xpath('//div[#class="pagedlist_item"]')]
q_len = len(questions)
print(q_len)
html = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('html')
html.send_keys(Keys.END)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 5)
time.sleep(5)
questions2 = [x for x in q_list.find_elements_by_xpath('//div[#class="pagedlist_item"]')]
print(len(questions2))
counter += 1
driver.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
scrape(url, 5)

I recommend using selenium rather than bs.
selenium can control browser and parsing. like scroll down, click button, etc…
this example is for scroll down for get all liker user in instagram.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/54882356/5611675

If the content only loads on "scrolling down", this probably means that the page is using Javascript to dynamically load the content.
You can try using a web client such as PhantomJS to load the page and execute the javascript in it, and simulate the scroll by injecting some JS such as document.body.scrollTop = sY; (Simulate scroll event using Javascript).

Selenium new url hangs webdriver

I'm using chromedriver + selenium to try to loop through a website with the same url structure for all their pages like so:
for i in range(1,3):
#iterate pages and get url
ureq = "https://somewebsite.com/#page=" + str(i)
driver.get(ureq.strip())
#create
soup = []
#main code here
try:
#Wait for page to load
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"some element in the DOM")))
src = driver.page_source
#Parse page with bs
soup = bs(src, "lxml")
except TimeoutException:
print("Timed out")
driver.quit()
#main code
driver.quit()
The problem is when the loop fires a second time and the url changes to "#page=2", I can see the webpage and url has changed in the webdriver but the script just hangs. There is no timeout or error message, the script just freezes.
I've also tried placing a print statement before "webDriverWait" to see where the program hangs but that also doesn't fire. I think for some reason, the second get url request is the culprit.
Why is that, or is something else here the issue?

If you can obtain the url directly from the href attribute of link element, the url should work when you enter into address bar directly. But it's not always work, see the below explain for click event
But if you obtain the url from address bar after click on some element, you will fail to open the destination page by enter the url into address bar.
Because when you click on the element, there maybe a click event triggered which executed a javascript code in background to fetch data from backend or whatever.
For those background stuff, you can't trigger them by enter the url in address bar. So the safety way is to click on the element.
I know Angularjs App acted as such way in most time.

How to bypass disclaimer while scraping a website

I was able to scrape the following website before using "driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()" for work reason. What I was scraping were the price and the date.
https://www.cash.ch/fonds/swisscanto-ast-avant-bvg-portfolio-45-p-19225268/swc/chf
This stopped working some days ago due to a disclaimer page which I have to agree at first.
https://www.cash.ch/fonds-investor-disclaimer?redirect=fonds/swisscanto-ast-avant-bvg-portfolio-45-p-19225268/swc/chf
Once agreed I visually saw the real content, however the driver seems not, print out is [], so it must be still with the url of the disclaimer.
Please see code below.
from selenium import webdriver
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import csv
import os
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver.set_window_size(1120, 550)
#Swisscanto
driver.get("https://www.cash.ch/fonds/swisscanto-ast-avant-bvg- portfolio-45-p-19225268/swc/chf")
s_swisscanto = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, 'lxml')
nav_sc = s_swisscanto.find_all('span', {"data-field-entry": "value"})
date_sc = s_swisscanto.find_all('span', {"data-field-entry": "datetime"})
print(nav_sc)
print(date_sc)
print("Done Swisscanton")

This should work (I think the button you want to click in zustimmen?)
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver.get("https://www.cash.ch/fonds/swisscanto-ast-avant-bvg-portfolio-45-p-19225268/swc/chf"
accept_button = driver.find_element_by_link_text('zustimmen')
accept_button.click()
content = driver.page_source
More details here
python selenium click on button

Parse resulting webpage Python Selenium

I used Selenium webdriver in Python to input some text in search field and look for it. I'd now like to parse that page/ use something like BeautifulSoup on it. But I'm confused about how to call the resulting page.
My code so far:
textinput = open("1.txt", "r").read()
url = "http://www.example.com"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='path/chromedriver.exe')
driver.get(url)
sbox = driver.find_element_by_name("a")
sbox.send_keys(textinput)
submit = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="maincontent"]/form/input[5]')
submit.click()

Once you have clicked on the submit button using:
submit.click()
It automatically goes to the next page. So, to parse the resulting page, just make another:
whatimlookingfor = driver.find_element_by_id("myid")
submit = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="maincontent"]/form/input[5]')
# You are still on the first page
submit.click()
# You are now on the second page
whatimlookingfor = driver.find_element_by_id("myid")