Navigating to a new page through Selenium in Python

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How do I navigate to another webpage using the same driver with Selenium in python? I do not want to open a new page. I want to keep on using the same driver. I thought that the following would work:

driver.navigate().to("https://support.tomtom.com/app/contact/")

But it doesn't! Navigate seems not to be a 'WebDriver' method

Mr. Blue · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-20 12:30:46Z

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To navigate to a webpage you just write

driver.get(__url__)

you can do this in your program multiple times

answered Mar 20, 2018 at 12:30

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undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-19 03:51:48Z

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The line of code which you have tried as :

driver.navigate().to("https://support.tomtom.com/app/contact/")

It is a typical Java based line of code.

However as per the currect Python API Docs of The WebDriver implementation navigate() method is yet to be supported/implemented.

Indtead, you can use the get(url) method instead which is defined as :

def get(self, url):
    """
    Loads a web page in the current browser session.
    """
    self.execute(Command.GET, {'url': url})

answered Mar 19, 2018 at 3:51

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Mauro Gentile Over a year ago

Actually when I run get(url), a new window pops up

undetected Selenium Over a year ago

As per the Selenium Java Client implementation get()/navigate().to() invokes the same call. It would be wiser to deal with the popups.

Bryan Oakley Over a year ago

@user3623123: if you say you get a new window everytime you call get, please update your question with a minimal reproducible example. I do not think you should be getting that behavior so maybe the problem is in how you are using it.

iHaveacomputer Over a year ago

From what I have experienced, .get() behaves more like creating a new browser instance that will forget/delete all previous cookies and sessions. This is bad if you are logged in somewhere and try to navigate to a different page.

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