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ViewsPython/Selenium web scrap how to find hidden src value from a links?
Scrapping links should be a simple feat, usually just grabbing the src value of the a tag.
I recently came across this website (https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions) where the href value of a tags of each item cannot be found, but the redirection still works. I'm trying to figure out a way to grab the items and their corresponding links. My typical python selenium code looks something as such
all_items = bot.find_elements_by_class_name('thumb-img')
for promo in all_items:
a = promo.find_elements_by_tag_name("a")
print("a[0]: ", a[0].get_attribute("href"))
However, I can't seem to retrieve any href, onclick attributes, and I'm wondering if this is even possible. I noticed that I couldn't do a right-click, open link in new tab as well.
Are there any ways around getting the links of all these items?
Edit: Are there any ways to retrieve all the links of the items on the pages?
i.e.
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/724
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/731
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/751
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/752
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/754
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/280
...
Edit:
Adding an image of one such anchor tag for better clarity:
Santiago Trujillo
2 answers
Answer question0
You are using a wrong locator. It brings you a lot of irrelevant elements.
Instead of find_elements_by_class_name('thumb-img') please try find_elements_by_css_selector('.collections-page .thumb-img') so your code will be
all_items = bot.find_elements_by_css_selector('.collections-page .thumb-img')
for promo in all_items:
a = promo.find_elements_by_tag_name("a")
print("a[0]: ", a[0].get_attribute("href"))
You can also get the desired links directly by .collections-page .thumb-img a locator so that your code could be:
links = bot.find_elements_by_css_selector('.collections-page .thumb-img a')
for link in links:
print(link.get_attribute("href"))
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By reverse-engineering the Javascript that takes you to the promotions pages (seen in https://sunteccity.com.sg/_nuxt/d4b648f.js) that gives you a way to get all the links, which are based on the HappeningID. You can verify by running this in the JS console, which gives you the first promotion:
window.__NUXT__.state.Promotion.promotions[0].HappeningID
Based on that, you can create a Python loop to get all the promotions:
items = driver.execute_script("return window.__NUXT__.state.Promotion;")
for item in items["promotions"]:
base = "https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/"
happening_id = str(item["HappeningID"])
print(base + happening_id)
That generated the following output:
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/724
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/731
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/751
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/752
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/754
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/280
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/764
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/766
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/762
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/767
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/732
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/733
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/735
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/736
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/737
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/738
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/739
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/740
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/741
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/742
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/743
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/744
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/745
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/746
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/747
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/748
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/749
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/750
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/753
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/755
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/756
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/757
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/758
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/759
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/760
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/761
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/763
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/765
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/730
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/734
https://sunteccity.com.sg/promotions/623