How to get html with javascript rendered sourcecode by using selenium
You will need to get get the document via javascript you can use seleniums execute_script function
from time import sleep # this should go at the top of the file
sleep(5)
html = driver.execute_script("return document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML")
print html
That will get everything inside of the <html> tag
It's not necessary to use that workaround, you can use instead:
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver.get('http://www.google.com/')
html = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('html').get_attribute('innerHTML')
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
driver=webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(urls)
innerHTML = driver.execute_script("return document.body.innerHTML")
#print(driver.page_source)
*Second: parse html using beautifulsoup (You can Downloaded beautifulsoup by pip command)
import bs4 #import beautifulsoup
import re
from time import sleep
sleep(1) #wait one second
root=bs4.BeautifulSoup(innerHTML,"lxml") #parse HTML using beautifulsoup
viewcount=root.find_all("span",attrs={'class':'short-view-count style-scope yt-view-count-renderer'}) #find the value which you need.
*Third: print out the value you need
for span in viewcount:
print(span.string)
*Full code
from selenium import webdriver
import lxml
urls="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()
##driver=webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(urls)
innerHTML = driver.execute_script("return document.body.innerHTML")
##print(driver.page_source)
import bs4
import re
from time import sleep
sleep(1)
root=bs4.BeautifulSoup(innerHTML,"lxml")
viewcount=root.find_all("span",attrs={'class':'short-view-count style-scope yt-view-count-renderer'})
for span in viewcount:
print(span.string)
driver.quit()