I'd like to download web page generated by Javascript
and store it to string variable in Python
code. The page is generated when you click on button.
If I would know the resulting URL I would use urllib2
but this is not the case.
thank you
You could use Selenium Webdriver:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from contextlib import closing
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox # pip install selenium
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
# use firefox to get page with javascript generated content
with closing(Firefox()) as browser:
browser.get(url)
button = browser.find_element_by_name('button')
button.click()
# wait for the page to load
WebDriverWait(browser, timeout=10).until(
lambda x: x.find_element_by_id('someId_that_must_be_on_new_page'))
# store it to string variable
page_source = browser.page_source
print(page_source)