Open web in new tab Selenium + Python

Question

So I am trying to open websites on new tabs inside my WebDriver. I want to do this, because opening a new WebDriver for each website takes about 3.5secs using PhantomJS, I w

Answer 1

In a discussion, Simon clearly mentioned that:

While the datatype used for storing the list of handles may be ordered by insertion, the order in which the WebDriver implementation iterates over the window handles to insert them has no requirement to be stable. The ordering is arbitrary.

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Using Selenium v3.x opening a website in a New Tab through Python is much easier now. We have to induce an WebDriverWait for number_of_windows_to_be(2) and then collect the window handles every time we open a new tab/window and finally iterate through the window handles and switchTo().window(newly_opened) as required. Here is a solution where you can open http://www.google.co.in in the initial TAB and https://www.yahoo.com in the adjacent TAB:

• Code Block:

  from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  
  options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
  options.add_argument("start-maximized")
  options.add_argument('disable-infobars')
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
  driver.get("http://www.google.co.in")
  print("Initial Page Title is : %s" %driver.title)
  windows_before  = driver.current_window_handle
  print("First Window Handle is : %s" %windows_before)
  driver.execute_script("window.open('https://www.yahoo.com')")
  WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.number_of_windows_to_be(2))
  windows_after = driver.window_handles
  new_window = [x for x in windows_after if x != windows_before][0]
  driver.switch_to_window(new_window)
  print("Page Title after Tab Switching is : %s" %driver.title)
  print("Second Window Handle is : %s" %new_window)
  

• Console Output:

  Initial Page Title is : Google
  First Window Handle is : CDwindow-B2B3DE3A222B3DA5237840FA574AF780
  Page Title after Tab Switching is : Yahoo
  Second Window Handle is : CDwindow-D7DA7666A0008ED91991C623105A2EC4
  

• Browser Snapshot:

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Outro

You can find the java based discussion in Best way to keep track and iterate through tabs and windows using WindowHandles using Selenium