how to make the webdriver stay in the page rather than quit

[coderyiyang]

I'm a newbee. Please tell me how to make the webdriver(a selenium concept, i mean the explorer the automation use) stop at the page it crawled, rather than quit? Want to check the pagesources. thx

[aravindkarnam]

@coderyiyang Can you expand a little more on what you mean by "check the pagesources", may be with your target URL. In Crawl4AI in order to make the scraper wait for certain divs/data to load on the page, you can use the wait_for and either use a js based(wait on a specific event) or css based(wait on specific div with a class name to load into DOM), before rest of the filtering, extraction and markdown generation happens.

[coderyiyang]

When debugging the crawler, I hope that after completing the web page crawling task, the browser does not close immediately. This way, I can check whether certain elements that need to be loaded or clicked via JavaScript have been fully operated on. In Selenium, this type of operation is usually achieved through explicit or implicit waiting. However, in Crawl4AI, I couldn't find such a method, and even the use of time.sleep() didn't work.

[aravindkarnam]

@coderyiyang So we have a hook based lifecycle management in Crawl4AI. So you can rely on the before_return_html, add a JS function that returns after a timeout. This should give you sufficient time to inspect if your required elements have loaded or javascript executed. Hope this helps. Let me know how this works for you.

[coderyiyang]

thx, im going to it.