prevent selenium from loading whole page using vba

I see the particular site you've mentioned takes a long loading time, while many of the DOM elements are already visible/loaded.

My suggestion to you would be to use a Page Load Strategy

You can tell Selenium not to wait for the whole document to be fully loaded:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = Options()
options.page_load_strategy = 'eager'   # or 'none'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

driver.get("https://www.ambito.com/contenidos/dolar.html")

Here are the available page loading strategies:

• "normal" (default): waits for full load.

• "eager": waits only until DOMContentLoaded or a certain element.

• "none": returns immediately after the first bytes arrive.

This website uses Cloudflare Human verification, so I would suggest using SeleniumBase , a wrapper around Selenium that can take care of it.

Here's a working example:

from seleniumbase import SB

url = "https://www.ambito.com/contenidos/dolar.html"


with SB(uc=True, page_load_strategy="eager", test=True) as sb:
    sb.maximize_window()
    sb.activate_cdp_mode(url)
    sb.uc_gui_click_captcha()  # handles potential CAPTCHA

    nav_tab = sb.wait_for_element("nav.main-nav", timeout=5)
    print(nav_tab.text.split())

output:

['Dólar', 'Economía', 'Finanzas', 'Política', 'Negocios', 'Opinión', 'Uruguay']

for example, in code above, if you just want to extract or test for the navigation bar element (nav.main-nav) to appear in DOM and close the browser right after that without waiting ages until the browser fully loads.