How to set the timeout of 'driver.get' for python selenium 3.8.0? How to set the timeout of 'driver.get' for python selenium 3.8.0? selenium selenium

How to set the timeout of 'driver.get' for python selenium 3.8.0?


To set the time out for Page Loading you can induce the set_page_load_timeout(seconds).


set_page_load_timeout


Method Details

def set_page_load_timeout(self, time_to_wait):    """    Set the amount of time to wait for a page load to complete    before throwing an error.

Args

time_to_wait: The amount of time to wait

Usage

driver.set_page_load_timeout(3)

Example

from selenium import webdriverfrom selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutExceptiondriver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')driver.set_page_load_timeout(2)try :    driver.get("https://www.booking.com/hotel/in/the-taj-mahal-palace-tower.html?label=gen173nr-1FCAEoggJCAlhYSDNiBW5vcmVmaGyIAQGYATG4AQbIAQzYAQHoAQH4AQKSAgF5qAID;sid=338ad58d8e83c71e6aa78c67a2996616;dest_id=-2092174;dest_type=city;dist=0;group_adults=2;hip_dst=1;hpos=1;room1=A%2CA;sb_price_type=total;srfid=ccd41231d2f37b82d695970f081412152a59586aX1;srpvid=c71751e539ea01ce;type=total;ucfs=1&#hotelTmpl")    print("URL successfully Accessed")    driver.quit()except TimeoutException as e:    print("Page load Timeout Occurred. Quitting !!!")    driver.quit()

Console Output

Page load Timeout Occurred. Quitting !!!

Documentation

You can find a detailed discussion on pageLoadTimeout here pageLoadTimeout in Selenium not working


Deep Dive

As per Python 3.x if we don't handle the exception the following log messages are observed :

    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message: timeout  (Session info: chrome=62.0.3202.94)  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.33.506120 (e3e53437346286c0bc2d2dc9aa4915ba81d9023f),platform=Windows NT 6.2.9200 x86_64)