How to set Selenium Python WebDriver default timeout?

Question

Trying to find a good way to set a maximum time limit for command execution latency in Selenium Python WebDriver. Ideally, something like:

my_driver = get_my_driver() my_driver.set_timeout(30) # seconds my_driver.get('http://www.example.com') # stops / throws exception when time is over 30     seconds 

would work. I have found .implicitly_wait(30), but I'm not sure if it results in the desired behavior.

In case it is useful, we are specifically using the WebDriver for Firefox.

EDIT

As per @amey's answer, this might be useful:

ff = webdriver.Firefox() ff.implicitly_wait(10) # seconds ff.get("http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading") myDynamicElement = ff.find_element_by_id("myDynamicElement") 

However, it is not clear to me whether the implicit wait applies both to get (which is the desired functionality) and to find_element_by_id.

Thanks very much!

Answer 1

In python, the method to create a timeout for a page to load is:

Firefox and Chromedriver:

driver.set_page_load_timeout(30) 

Other::

driver.implicitly_wait(30) 

This will throw a TimeoutException whenever the page load takes more than 30 seconds.

Answer 2

The best way is to set preference:

fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile() fp.set_preference("http.response.timeout", 5) fp.set_preference("dom.max_script_run_time", 5) driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp)  driver.get("http://www.google.com/")