Selenium cannot enable javascript in python

Question

how do I enable javascript in selenium using python? I tried several methods but mine isnt working. Does anyone know how could i fix this issue? Thanks

My code

from selenium import webdriver
import urllib
import urllib.request
import string
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import mysql.connector
import time

chrome_path = r"C:\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path)
driver.add_argument("--enable-javascript")

Error i got

Exception has occurred: AttributeError
'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'add_argument'
  File "C:\Users\bustillo-ronald\Desktop\python-basics\Scrape\propertyguru.py", line 11, in <module>
    driver.add_argument("--enable-javascript")

MSlimmer · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-25 03:25:13Z

1

You need to create an instance of a ChromeOptions object first and add_argument to that. Then pass the options object as an argument to the Chrome webdriver.

something like this

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--enable-javascript")

# Now back to your code
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path, options=options)

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edited Nov 25, 2019 at 3:25

answered Nov 25, 2019 at 3:13

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draw134 Over a year ago

i already did like this sir

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options  opt = webdriver.ChromeOptions()  opt.add_argument("--enable-javascript") chrome_path = r"C:\chromedriver.exe" driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path,chrome_options=opt)

But the site that i want to scrape doesnt let me to access because javascript is disabled

draw134 Over a year ago

the site says cant identify my browser. its because javascript or cookies are disabled. how to prevent this sir?

MSlimmer Over a year ago

How is the site indicating this to you?

draw134 Over a year ago

when i run my code then the browser says cant identify my browser because of disabled javascript

MSlimmer Over a year ago

What happens if you run this:

driver.get("https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/is-javascript-enabled") assert(driver.find_element_by_id("detected_value").text=="Yes")

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