Python Selenium accessing HTML source

Question

How can I get the HTML source in a variable using the Selenium module with Python?

I wanted to do something like this:

from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get("http://example.com")
if "whatever" in html_source:
    # Do something
else:
    # Do something else

How can I do this? I don't know how to access the HTML source.

Answer 1

You need to access the page_source property:

from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get("http://example.com")

html_source = browser.page_source
if "whatever" in html_source:
    # do something
else:
    # do something else