I try to handle the "infinite scrolling" in Quora website. I use selenium lib with Python after trying to use the send_keys methods i try to run Javascript command in order to scroll down the page.
It doesn't working when i run the code, but if i try to run in the firefox console it's work. How can i fix this problem? and it's possibile use PhantomJs?
def scrapying(self):
print platform.system()
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
#browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path='/usr/local/bin/node_modules/phantomjs/lib/phantom/bin/phantomjs')
browser.get("https://www.quora.com/C-programming-language")
#browser.get("https://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?sid=396545660")
time.sleep(10)
#elem = browser.find_element_by_class_name("topic_page content contents main_content fixed_header ContentWrapper")
no_of_pagedowns = 500
while no_of_pagedowns:
#elem.send_keys(Keys.SPACE)
browser.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")
time.sleep(0.5)
no_of_pagedowns -= 1
browser.quit()
myClassObject = getFrom()
myClassObject.scrapying()
One of the options would be to recursively scroll into view of the last loaded post on a page:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.quora.com/C-programming-language")
NUM_POSTS = 200
posts = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("div.pagedlist_item")
while len(posts) < NUM_POSTS:
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", posts[-1])
posts = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("div.pagedlist_item")
print(len(posts))
And it would scroll the page down until, at least, NUM_POSTS
posts are loaded.