Selenium + Python: How to stop page loading when certain element gets loaded?

Question

The implicit and explicit waits can be used when the page uses AJAX, but I want to stop the loading caused by driver.get() when sufficient elements are loaded.

Answer 1

Yes it's possible by setting the pageLoadStrategy capability to none. Then wait for an element to be present and call window.stop to stop the loading:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

capa = DesiredCapabilities.CHROME
capa["pageLoadStrategy"] = "none"

driver = webdriver.Chrome(desired_capabilities=capa)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)

driver.get('http://stackoverflow.com/')

wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#h-top-questions')))

driver.execute_script("window.stop();")