Python Selenium page cannot save source code encode error

Question

I am trying to save source code with Selenium into .txt, but the .txt file stays empty.

When I tryed to print the source code with command:

htmlcode = driver.page_source
(driver.page_source).encode('utf-8'))
print(htmlcode)

It will print the source code but then it kills the script with error:

File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 12, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u20ac' in position 16329: character maps to <undefined>

I used the script below, but this wont work because of the encode error i gues. site=browser.open(link) fileobjj = open("output.txt","wb") fileobjj.write(site.read()) fileobjj.close() — Jesse kraal
– Jesse kraal, Commented Feb 10, 2017 at 12:35

Jesse kraal · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-10 12:58:33Z

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Problem solved! After 3 hours searching ':-)

html = driver.page_source
f = open('savepage.html', 'w')
f.write(html.encode('utf-8'))
f.close()

answered Feb 10, 2017 at 12:58

Jesse kraal

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