Python web scraping click button
I have a website I would like to click a button on then scrape the website using python the html code between the button is: Show
Is this possible? I am able to scrape all the data I need from the page but I need to click the button first. Any help would be appreciated asked Nov 9, 2014 at 0:23
Basically, you have two options:
answered Nov 9, 2014 at 0:32
alecxealecxe 447k112 gold badges1036 silver badges1162 bronze badges If there is a button you want to click then scrape then do the following:
but this isn't applicable when the button needs to activate some js function that should've run on clicking the element.
rene 40.2k78 gold badges114 silver badges147 bronze badges answered May 9, 2020 at 7:09
TonyMontanaTonyMontana 2513 silver badges17 bronze badges Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged python onclick click web-scraping screen-scraping or ask your own question.IntroductionLearning to scrape the web using Python can be quite challenging. When I first got started, it took many hours. I tried libraries, consulted Reddit, browsed Stack Overflow, and googled my heart out until I got the code to finally work. Since then, I really haven’t had the need to learn anything else. I just reused the same code over and over again, applying it to different websites in a variety of projects. This tutorial will teach you the basics of web-scraping in Python and will also explain some pitfalls to watch out for. After completing this guide, you will be ready to work on your own web-scraping projects. Happy coding! Tools UsedThese are the tools you will use. I have included some explanation of each tool’s function and what you’ll need to do in order to get them set up correctly. Google Chrome: To get the web-scraper to work you need either Google Chrome or Firefox. We will use Google Chrome. If you don’t have it already downloaded, click here. Once you have it downloaded, click on the stacked triple circle icon in the upper right. Then click “Help” and then click “About Chrome”. Note the version number. This will be important for the next tool. Chrome Driver: Our next tool is called Chrome Driver. Chrome Driver will do the work of our application and execute our python code. Click this link to download and make sure you match up the Chrome Driver version number with the Google Chrome version number you recorded earlier. Periodically, you may come to find that your code has randomly stopped working. In my experience, this is usually caused by Google Chrome updating to a new version that leaves the Chrome Driver outdated. If this ever happens to you, simply download the newer Chrome Driver version, delete the old one, and place the new one where the old one used to be in your files. Anaconda: The next step is to get Anaconda downloaded which you can find here. Anaconda contains a bundle of resources, the most important of which, for our purposes, is Jupyter Notebook. Click through the downloading process without much care. Jupyter Notebook: Next we have Jupyter Notebook. It is a relatively simple code editor. If you already have Anaconda downloaded, you can open Jupyter Notebook and the notebook should open. Navigate to the folder where you want the python code to be located and then press “new” and then click “Python 3” to create your web-scraping file. Selenium: The last tool you will use is the Selenium package for python. This package contains the names of the functions you will use to write your web-scraper. If you don’t already have it downloaded, open up Anaconda Prompt. Then type “pip install selenium” and wait for selenium to be downloaded. Setup over! Bring on the copy and pasting, am I right? Base Python CodeYou may copy and paste the following base code into your Jupyter Notebook
file: The above code will import the selenium library and will give a simpler name to one of the Selenium functions. Next, you can link the python code to the Chrome Driver. Use the following code with the executable path set to your machine’s Chrome Driver location. Mine looks like this: Base code over! Now things will get interesting because you are ready to actually code the scraper and interact with your desired website. Web NavigationThis section will teach you the basic commands you can give your program to do the scraping. Opening the Website XPath Caution Scraping Text Clicking
Elements Filling Out Forms (Logging In) Conclusion Further reading and what I'm up to I am working on building a full online Bootcamp on Medium, if you want to check out my progress: check it out at this link. Thanks for reading and I hope you found it useful! How do you click a button in Web scraping Python?We can click a button with Selenium webdriver in Python using the click method. First, we have to identify the button to be clicked with the help of any locators like id, name, class, xpath, tagname or css. Then we have to apply the click method on it. A button in html code is represented by button tagname.
How can I scrape a website if a click is required to reveal the data?How to scrape more information which needs to be clicked to show?. Set up a click step - tell Octoparse to click open the description tab. Click on the Description. ... . If the data can be found in the source code of the web page, you can extract data directly. Switch on Browse mode.. How do you click a website in Python?Steps by step Approach:. Import required modules.. Create webdriver object.. Assign URL.. Use maximize_window() method to maximize the browser window. And then wait 10 seconds using sleep() method.. Use find_element_by_link_text() method to click button by text.. How can I click a button without using selenium?Use the Chrome dev tools > Network tab. Click on the CSV button and see where the CSV comes from. – Mike67. Aug 17, 2020 at 22:08.. Perfect! Nice little trick, was able to get the api endpoint from this. – Marc. Aug 17, 2020 at 22:15.. |