Increment string number within selenium driver url in Python

Question

I am Writing a Script for automation purposes. The Selenium driver wont update the page number, so the driver can proceed to the next page number.

sample.py

number_to_loop_over = 5
page = number_to_loop_over
while True:
if page != 0:
    #page must be string so driver can be executed 
    driver.get(driver.current_url +str(page)) 

page = page - 1
    if page == 0:
    break

Problem :

str(page), is not been replaced once the current_url is called; instead this is what's happening :

(current_url123)

once the current_url is called for the first time, 1 gets inserted, but if called again, str(page) gets appended beside the previous number.

PDHide · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-22 13:20:02Z

1

You are calling current url eachtime :

which will be baseurl for first iteration , but second iteration current url will be baseurl+id , and for third it will be baseurl+id+id

so instead of appending id to driver.currenturl , create a variable called baseurl and sotre the initial base url into it.

number_to_loop_over = 5
page = number_to_loop_over
baseUrl = driver.current_url
while True:
if page != 0:
    #page must be string so driver can be executed 
    driver.get( baseUrl +str(page)) 

page = page - 1
    if page == 0:
    break

answered Nov 22, 2020 at 13:20

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