How can I parse a website using Selenium and Beautifulsoup in python?

Question

New to programming and figured out how to navigate to where I need to go using Selenium. I'd like to parse the data now but not sure where to start. Can someone hold my hand a sec and point me in the right direction?

Any help appreciated -

Answer 1

Assuming you are on the page you want to parse, Selenium stores the source HTML in the driver's page_source attribute. You would then load the page_source into BeautifulSoup as follows:

In [8]: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

In [9]: from selenium import webdriver

In [10]: driver = webdriver.Firefox()

In [11]: driver.get('http://news.ycombinator.com')

In [12]: html = driver.page_source

In [13]: soup = BeautifulSoup(html)

In [14]: for tag in soup.find_all('title'):
   ....:     print tag.text
   ....:     
   ....:     
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