Switching into new window using Selenium after button click

Question

I'm working on quite a simple webpage project and got stuck a bit. I'm using a website that after filling the form and clicking the button gives me my desired data in for of XML document opening in a new window. However, I have no clue how to access it, as I am not given the window name

browser = Browser('firefox')
browser.visit('http://desiredurl/')
form = browser.find_by_id('input')
button = browser.find_by_id('send')
form.fill(string)
button.click()

Clicking on a button triggers an ajax request (doAjaxRequest("POST", url, xml);) and opens a new window with XML document. What is the best way to access data from opened XML?

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-21 23:29:18Z

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The solution for your question will be to induce Explicitwait with expected_conditions as number_of_windows_to_be and then switch over to the new window as follows :

parent = driver.current_window_handle
button = browser.find_by_id('send')
form.fill(string)
button.click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.number_of_windows_to_be(2)
    )   
child = driver.window_handles[1]      
driver.switch_to_window(child) 
print ("Child Window ID is : %s" %child)
print("Child Window Title is : %s " %(driver.title))

You have to add the following imports:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

edited Dec 21, 2021 at 23:29

answered Nov 3, 2017 at 5:28

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vesszabo Over a year ago

For beginners a little help: from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

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