selenium refresh page-How to refresh an already opened web page

Question

I just want to refresh an already opened web page with Selenium.

It always opens a new browser window.

Can anyone tell how it can be corrected?

from selenium import webdriver

import urllib

import urllib2

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

driver.refresh()

Answer 1

I would suggest binding the driver element search to the tag body and use the refresh command of the browser.

In OSX for example

driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.COMMAND + 'r')

Update: The following code, very similar to your one, works fine for me.

driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.get(response.url) #tested in combination with scrapy time.sleep(3) driver.refresh()

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