What is the best way to check URL change with Selenium in Python?

Question

So, what\'s I want to do is to run a function on a specific webpage (which is a match with my regex).

Right now I\'m checking it every second and it works, but I\'m

Answer 1

Here is an example using WebdriverWait with expected_conditions:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC 

url = 'https://example.com/before'
changed_url = 'https://example.com/after'

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(url)

# wait up to 10 secs for the url to change or else `TimeOutException` is raised.
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.url_changes(changed_url))