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berkle4455
1179 days ago
Javascript is delivered as text and sends text-based HTTP calls to the server to fetch more data. Why do you need selenium?
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LelouBil
1179 days ago
if you don't want to reverse engineer the javascript
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KomoD
1178 days ago
Most of the time you don't need to, just open up devtools, look at the network tab, locate the right request(s).
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rhd
1179 days ago
I've once used Selenium to run javascript in the webpage to steal a few dynamic tokens required by the sites API to reuse in my more well-trodden python-requests workflow.
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