Python Get on a website and running $(document).ready(function()

Question

I am doing some testing on my site, and I have a python program which does gets on few different pages. Some of these pages have $(document).ready(function() . I noticed that when I do get through python, I get the code, but for example $(document).ready(function() doesn't run.

How can I run the $(document).ready(function() of the site I am doing a GET on?

Thank you for help.

Answer 1

You should go for Selenium , it lets you control a real browser from your python code . That means your javascript will be executed by the browser .

Example code :

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.send_keys("pycon")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source
driver.close()