Selenium with Python, how do I get the page output after running a script?

Question

I'm not sure how to find this information, I have found a few tutorials so far about using Python with selenium but none have so much as touched on this.. I am able to run some basic test scripts through python that automate selenium but it just shows the browser window for a few seconds and then closes it.. I need to get the browser output into a string / variable (ideally) or at least save it to a file so that python can do other things on it (parse it, etc).. I would appreciate if anyone can point me towards resources on how to do this. Thanks

Answer 1

using Selenium Webdriver and Python, you would simply access the .page_source property to get the source of the current page.

for example, using Firefox() driver:

from selenium import webdriver


driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('http://www.example.com/')

print(driver.page_source)

driver.quit()

Answer 2

There's a Selenium.getHtmlSource() method in Java, most likely it is also available in Python. It returns the source of the current page as string, so you can do whatever you want with it