I run a query in one web page, then I get result url. If I right click see html source, I can see the html code generated by JS. If I simply use urllib, python cannot get the JS code. So I see some solution using selenium. Here's my code:
from selenium import webdriver
url = 'http://www.archives.com/member/Default.aspx?_act=VitalSearchResult&lastName=Smith&state=UT&country=US&deathYear=2004&deathYearSpan=10&location=UT&activityID=9b79d578-b2a7-4665-9021-b104999cf031&RecordType=2'
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path='C:\python27\scripts\phantomjs.exe')
driver.get(url)
print driver.page_source
>>> <html><head></head><body></body></html> Obviously It's not right!!
Here's the source code I need in right click windows, (I want the INFORMATION part)
</script></div><div class="searchColRight"><div id="topActions" class="clearfix
noPrint"><div id="breadcrumbs" class="left"><a title="Results Summary"
href="Default.aspx? _act=VitalSearchR ...... <<INFORMATION I NEED>> ...
to view the entire record.</p></div><script xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery(".ancestry-information-tooltip").actooltip({
href: "#AncestryInformationTooltip", orientation: "bottomleft"});
});
=========== So my question is =============== How to get the information generated by JS?
It's not necessary to use that workaround, you can use instead:
You try
Dryscrape
this browser is fully supported heavy js codes try it i hope it work for youI met the same problem and finally solved by desired_capabilities.
I am thinking that you are getting the source code before the JavaScript has rendered the dynamic HTML.
Initially try putting a few seconds sleep between the navigate and get page source.
If this works, then you can change to a different wait strategy.
I have same problem about getting Javascript sourcecode from Internet, and I solved it using above Victory's suggestion.
*First:
execute_script
*Second: parse html using
beautifulsoup
(You can Downloadedbeautifulsoup
by pip command)*Third: print out the value you need
*Full code
You will need to get get the document via
javascript
you can use seleniumsexecute_script
functionThat will get everything inside of the
<html>
tag