Improved contact scraping using Selenium #1
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…lSoup and using Selenium instead for actually clicking the services, thus excerting the contact information properly. Also added the latest imports in requirements.txt
…lSoup and using Selenium instead for actually clicking the services, thus excerting the contact information properly. Also added the latest imports in requirements.txt
FraneCal
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Mar 28, 2025
| print("Accepted cookies.") | ||
| except NoSuchElementException: | ||
| print("No accept cookies button found.") | ||
| except Exception: |
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Why catch all errors if you only need two ones: when there is no button to click (NoSuchElementException) and when time runs out which could be added (TimeoutException)?
| # Wait for the sidebar to load | ||
| print("Waiting for the sidebar to load...") | ||
| divSideBar = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, f"div[aria-label*='{service.lower()} {location.lower()}']"))) | ||
| # Wait for results to load |
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I find WebDriverWait to be better because I doesn't always have to wait for the whole time (in this case yours 5 sec).
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Improved the scraping of contacts by removing the reliance of BeatifulSoup and using Selenium instead for actually clicking the services, thus excerting the contact information properly. Also added the latest imports in requirements.txt