How to refresh an already opened web page

Question

I just want to refresh an already opened web page with Selenium.

It always opens a new browser window.

What I'm doing wrong?

from selenium import webdriver import urllib import urllib2  driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.refresh() 

Answer 1

I would suggest binding the driver element search to the tag body and use the refresh command of the browser.

In OSX for example

driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.COMMAND + 'r') 

Documentation on keys here: http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html

Update: The following code, very similar to your one, works fine for me.

    driver = webdriver.Firefox()     driver.get(response.url) #tested in combination with scrapy        time.sleep(3)        driver.refresh() 

Are you sure you correctly load the web page with the driver before refreshing it ?