How to SCRAPE DYNAMIC websites with Selenium
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when someone needs to scrape values that only appear after JavaScript runs and plain requests won't work.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2022 to 2023.
What it is
A short Python tutorial by John Watson Rooney on scraping JavaScript-rendered pages with Selenium. It walks through driving a browser, locating elements by XPath or class, and pulling the data out of dynamically loaded content.
What people said
Recommends Jason Martin · 2022-02 · Stack Overflow · on “Trying to get value determined by javascript using selenium”
I found a pretty detailed video that did exactly what I was looking for. The solution was finding the data I needed and copying the xpath by using find_element , then I appened it to a list and used pandas to make it look pretty. Here is the finished code: from selenium import webdriver import pandas as pd PATH = "C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe" driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH) driver.get(" [LINK] ") node_data = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('wpb_wrapper') data_list = [] for data in node_data: node_price = data.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="pb-node-info-table"]/tbody/tr[6]/td[2]/span[1]').text nodes_sold = data.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="pb-node-info-table"]/tbody/tr[3]/t
Recommends Artur Pollan · 2022-05 · Stack Overflow · on “How do i skip a element from a list”
The variable "post" has no context within which to be relative (value starts with a period). Since there is no description of the structure of the actual webpage, it is hard to determine the correct code you need. I found these two YouTube clips to be instructive: How I use SELENIUM to AUTOMATE the Web with PYTHON. Pt1: [LINK] How to SCRAPE DYNAMIC websites with Selenium: [this video]
Cites h0204663 · 2023-01 · Stack Overflow · on “Scraping Interactive Line Charts with Python”
I would like to know how to extract the data that popped up when the mouse hovers over a certain time frame inside a graph panel. The website is [LINK] Data Graph Image [LINK] I tried Use Selenium to webscrape the data that popped up. There was a solution from [LINK] and [this video] but the difference here is I cannot capture the XPATH of the popup message. from selenium import webdriver DRIVER_PATH = '/Users/hudso/OneDrive/Documents/UST course/chromedriver.exe' driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=DRIVER_PATH) driver.get(" [LINK] ") datas = driver.find_element_by_class_name('overlay') for data in datas: Date = data.find_element_by_xpath('.//*[@id="trufrate-timeframe"]/g[2]/text[1]').text I