crawl site that has infinite scrolling using python

Question

I have been doing research and so far I found out the python package that I will plan on using its scrapy, now I am trying to find out what is a good way to build a scraper

Answer 1

This is short & simple code which is working for me:

SCROLL_PAUSE_TIME = 20

# Get scroll height
last_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")

while True:
    # Scroll down to bottom
    driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")

    # Wait to load page
    time.sleep(SCROLL_PAUSE_TIME)

    # Calculate new scroll height and compare with last scroll height
    new_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")
    if new_height == last_height:
        break
    last_height = new_height

posts = driver.find_elements_by_class_name("post-text")

for block in posts:
    print(block.text)