How to Scrape With Headless Firefox
Discover how to use headless Firefox with Selenium, Playwright, and Puppeteer for web scraping, including practical examples for each library.
To scroll to an element in Selenium we can find the HTML element using CSS or XPath selectors and execute javascript scrollIntoView() function:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://some-url.com")
# find element to scroll to. In this example we select last element with product class:
element = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.products .product')[-1]
# execute scrollIntoView script with our element as the argument:
driver.execute_script(
"arguments[0].scrollIntoView(scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth', block: 'end', inline: 'end' });",
element
)
driver.close()
In the example above we're using scrollIntoView with smooth type of scrolling which performs more like a real user. We also specify block and inline arguments to end value to scroll to the bottom of the horizontal right of the element - this ensures highest visibility of the element. For more see browser's scrollIntoView documentation
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