“Eager” Page Load Strategy workaround for Chromedriver Selenium in Python

ChromeDriver is the standalone server which implements WebDriver’s wire protocol for Chromium. Chrome and Chromium are still in the process of implementing and moving to the W3C standard. Currently ChromeDriver is available for Chrome on Android and Chrome on Desktop (Mac, Linux, Windows and ChromeOS). As per the current WebDriver W3C Editor’s Draft The following … Read more

Page load strategy for Chrome driver (Updated till Selenium v3.12.0)

ChromeDriver 77.0 (which supports Chrome version 77) now supports eager as pageLoadStrategy. Resolved issue 1902: Support eager page load strategy [Pri-2] From the Webdriver specs: For commands that cause a new document to load, the point at which the command returns is determined by the session’s page loading strategy. When Page Loading takes too much … Read more

Don’t wait for a page to load using Selenium in Python

ChromeDriver 77.0 (which supports Chrome version 77) now supports eager as pageLoadStrategy. Resolved issue 1902: Support eager page load strategy [Pri-2] As you question mentions of click on elements and scrape data before the page has fully loaded in this case we can take help of an attribute pageLoadStrategy. When Selenium loads a page/url by … Read more

How to make Selenium not wait till full page load, which has a slow script?

When Selenium loads a page/url by default it follows a default configuration with pageLoadStrategy set to normal. To make Selenium not to wait for full page load we can configure the pageLoadStrategy. pageLoadStrategy supports 3 different values as follows: normal (full page load) eager (interactive) none Here is the code block to configure the pageLoadStrategy … Read more