Python Selenium Chrome - How to refresh a page if it takes too long to load the page for the first time

Question

I would like to refresh a page if the loading time exceeds my expectation. So I plan to use existing function set_page_load_timeout(time_to_wait), but it turns out that call driver.get() seems not to work anymore.

I've written a simple program below and hit the problem.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException

import time



driver = webdriver.Chrome()
time.sleep(5)

driver.set_page_load_timeout(2)

try:
    driver.get("https://aws.amazon.com/")
except TimeoutException as e:
    print str(e)

driver.set_page_load_timeout(86400)

time.sleep(5)

print "open page"
driver.get("https://aws.amazon.com/")
print "page loaded"

The environment info:
chrome=67.0.3396.99

chromedriver=2.40.565386 (45a059dc425e08165f9a10324bd1380cc13ca363),platform=Mac OS X 10.13.4 x86_64

Selenium Version: 3.12.0

or see: environment

Answer 1

What you are seeing is an unfortunate situation when get / navigation timeouts the connection is not stable, so you can't operate well on the browser again.

The only workaround that exists as of now is to disable the pageLoadStrategy , but then you loose lot of good perks which automatically wait for pageLoad on get and click operations

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException

import time

from selenium.webdriver import DesiredCapabilities

cap = DesiredCapabilities.CHROME
cap["pageLoadStrategy"] = "none"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(desired_capabilities=cap)