How to pass urls as user input to invoke through Selenium and Python?

Question

Every time I run my script I want it to ask me what is the targeted url using input() so it can store it as a variable and use it in a function but every time I input the url the script won't continue and pressing enter causes it to open the url on my default browser as a tab instead of a new chrome object.

def function1(targeturl):
 driver = webdriver.Chrome()
 driver.get(targeturl)

print('What is the website?')
webPage = input()
function1(webPage)

I'm not sure whether the IDE is important but I'm using Pycharm. I will copy and paste the url in after it asks me and when I press enter it will open the url instead of continuing the script

it is really a welknown bug in pycharm , stackoverflow.com/questions/57070719/… — Jainil Patel
– Jainil Patel, Commented Jul 26, 2019 at 5:00

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-29 09:27:25Z

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To invoke a url taken as user input you can use the input() function.

Here is your own program with some simple enhancements which will accept 3 urls one by one from the user and navigate to the respective urls:

Code Block:

from selenium import webdriver

def function1(targeturl):
    driver.get(targeturl)
    # perform your taks here

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
for i in range(3):
    webPage = input("What is the website url?(Press enter at the end to continue):")
    function1(webPage)
driver.quit()

Console Output:

What is the website url?(Press enter at the end to continue):http://www.google.com
What is the website url?(Press enter at the end to continue):http://www.facebook.com
What is the website url?(Press enter at the end to continue):http://www.gmail.com

answered Aug 29, 2018 at 9:27

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SolalVall · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-29 00:37:10Z

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I'm not sure to understand exactly what you want to do but the script stop running because all actions are done.

Like Selenium Doc say "The driver.get method will navigate to a page given by the URL."

For example, you can add this to your function (return page title, some actions and then quit the driver):

print browser.title
'''
Make some actions
'''
browser.quit()

edited Aug 29, 2018 at 0:37

answered Aug 29, 2018 at 0:28

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Niranjan Perera · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-29 00:58:03Z

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If you do like this what happens? assign "targeturl" as a global variable first.

targeturl = "xxxx"
def function1(targeturl):
 driver = webdriver.Chrome()
 driver.get(targeturl)

print('What is the website?')
webPage = input()
function1(webPage)

answered Aug 29, 2018 at 0:58

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