Hide/Remove ads with selenium python

Question

I am trying to make a program that detects ads and then removes them. This is my code so far:

from selenium import webdriver

url = input('Enter URL to detect ads from: ')

browser = webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get('http://'+url)

all_iframes = browser.find_elements_by_tag_name("iframe")
print(' ')


for iframe in all_iframes:
   browser.switch_to.frame(iframe)
   print("Ad Found")
   browser.switch_to.default_content()

print(' ')
print('Total Ads: ' + str(len(all_iframes)))

My question is that is there a way to remove/hide these ads my program has detected?

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-04 19:36:38Z

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You can simply set hidden attribute to each iframe to make them invisible as follow:

from selenium import webdriver

url = input('Enter URL to detect ads from: ')

browser = webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get('http://'+url)

all_iframes = browser.find_elements_by_tag_name("iframe")
if len(all_iframes) > 0:
    print("Ad Found\n")
    browser.execute_script("""
        var elems = document.getElementsByTagName("iframe"); 
        for(var i = 0, max = elems.length; i < max; i++)
             {
                 elems[i].hidden=true;
             }
                          """)
    print('Total Ads: ' + str(len(all_iframes)))
else:
    print('No frames found')

P.S. Note that not every iframe on page is an advertisement!

edited Jan 4, 2017 at 19:36

answered Jan 4, 2017 at 10:34

Andersson

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Vagif Over a year ago

thanks for your reply. Can you tell me where exactly i should put the code you answered?

Vagif Over a year ago

Is there a way to find all ads on a page using ad servers on this link: link or is there any way of finding all ads on a page?

Andersson Over a year ago

Do you want to check hypertext reference of each iframe element's embedded link and compare its origin with each of adserver IP? Also I'm not sure that there is a way to determine whether it's an ad on iframe or not. There could be attributes like title="3rd party ad content" or name="google_ads_frame3", but it's not a strong rule... I think you might need to open new ticket to get this info

Vagif Over a year ago

thanks a lot for your help I will make a new ticket soon

Andersson Over a year ago

You can mark this answer as Accepted if it solved your current issue

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