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
:
-
Firefox :
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities caps = DesiredCapabilities().FIREFOX caps["pageLoadStrategy"] = "normal" # complete #caps["pageLoadStrategy"] = "eager" # interactive #caps["pageLoadStrategy"] = "none" driver = webdriver.Firefox(desired_capabilities=caps, executable_path=r'C:\path\to\geckodriver.exe') driver.get("http://google.com")
-
Chrome :
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities caps = DesiredCapabilities().CHROME caps["pageLoadStrategy"] = "normal" # complete #caps["pageLoadStrategy"] = "eager" # interactive #caps["pageLoadStrategy"] = "none" driver = webdriver.Chrome(desired_capabilities=caps, executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe') driver.get("http://google.com")
Note :
pageLoadStrategy
valuesnormal
,eager
andnone
is a requirement as per WebDriver W3C Editor's Draft butpageLoadStrategy
value aseager
is still a WIP (Work In Progress) within ChromeDriver implementation. You can find a detailed discussion in “Eager” Page Load Strategy workaround for Chromedriver Selenium in Python