Render HTTP Response(HTML content) in selenium webdriver(browser)

Question

I am using Requests module to send GET and POST requests to websites and then processing their responses. If the Response.text meets a certain criteria, I want it to be opened up in a browser. To do so currently I am using selenium package and resending the request to the webpage via the selenium webdriver. However, I feel it's inefficient as I have already obtained the response once, so is there a way to render this obtained Response object directly into the browser opened via selenium ?

EDIT A hacky way that I could think of is to write the response.text to a temporary file and open that in the browser. Please let me know if there is a better way to do it than this ?

short answer no. Long answer, there are hacky ways like what you are trying but why bother? What do you gain by all that effort? — e4c5
– e4c5, Commented Apr 22, 2016 at 6:01
@e4c5 as I said, I want to open a page response in selenium only if it meets a certain set of conditions in its response, if I simply open up all the requests in browser that would make my application slower due to the unnecessary responses that the browser will be rendering — bawejakunal
– bawejakunal, Commented Apr 25, 2016 at 7:47
@PadraicCunningham to check for XSS execution, the code tries to inject alerts as a proof-of-concept RXSS and then checks in the browser for it successful execution. — bawejakunal
– bawejakunal, Commented Apr 25, 2016 at 15:22

Florent B. · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-25 15:37:01Z

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To directly render some HTML with Selenium, you can use the data scheme with the get method:

from selenium import webdriver
import requests

content = requests.get("http://stackoverflow.com/").content

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("data:text/html;charset=utf-8," + content)

Or you could write the page with a piece of script:

from selenium import webdriver
import requests

content = requests.get("http://stackoverflow.com/").content

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.execute_script("""
  document.location = 'about:blank';
  document.open();
  document.write(arguments[0]);
  document.close();
  """, content)

edited Apr 25, 2016 at 15:37

answered Apr 25, 2016 at 15:18

Florent B.

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