Scrolling down a page with Selenium Webdriver

Question

I have a dynamic page that loads products when the user scrolls down a page. I want to get the total number of products rendered on the display page. Currently I am using the following code to get to the bottom until all the products are being displayed.

elems = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 30).until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "x")))
print len(elems)
a = len(elems)
self.driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")
time.sleep(4)
elem1 = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 30).until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "x")))
b = len(elem1)
while b > a:
    self.driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")
    time.sleep(4)
    elem1 = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 30).until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "x")))
    a = b
    b = len(elem1)
print b

This is working nicely, but I want to know whether there is any better option of doing this?

Answer 1

You can perform this action easily using this line of code

driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")

And if you want to scroll down for ever you should try this.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://twitter.com/BarackObama")

while True:
    driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")
    time.sleep(3)

I am not sure about time.sleep(x value) cause loading data my take longer .. or less .. for more information please check the official Doc page

have fun :)