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How to Caputre Data After Selenium Scroll
#1
Hello

I made a small python script that loads a website and then scrolls to the bottom of the page. I now would like to count all the instances in the page which have text ', no run,' and preferably show them in a column or data frame format. Can someone please tell me how can I do it and how can I load the fully scrolled data into a python variable?

Thanks! P.S. Below is the script that I wrote.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time


driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/11380/commentary/860281/sri-lanka-vs-pakistan-2nd-t20i-pakistan-tour-of-sri-lanka-2015')


elm = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('html')
elm.send_keys(Keys.END)
time.sleep(3)
elm.send_keys(Keys.END)
time.sleep(3)
elm.send_keys(Keys.END)
time.sleep(3)
elm.send_keys(Keys.END)
time.sleep(3)
time.sleep(3)
elm.send_keys(Keys.END)
time.sleep(3)
time.sleep(3)
elm.send_keys(Keys.END)
time.sleep(3)
time.sleep(3)
elm.send_keys(Keys.END)
time.sleep(3)
time.sleep(3)
elm.send_keys(Keys.END)
time.sleep(3)
time.sleep(3)
elm.send_keys(Keys.END)
time.sleep(3)
time.sleep(3)
elm.send_keys(Keys.END)
time.sleep(3)
time.sleep(3)
elm.send_keys(Keys.END)
time.sleep(3)
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#2
This is a better method to scroll to the bottom. It automatically identified the end of the page instead of arbitrary scrolling (and much faster too).
def scroll_to_bottom(driver):
    driver = self.browser
    SCROLL_PAUSE_TIME = 0.5
    # Get scroll height
    last_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")

    while True:
        # Scroll down to bottom
        driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")

        # Wait to load page
        time.sleep(SCROLL_PAUSE_TIME)

        # Calculate new scroll height and compare with last scroll height
        new_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")
        if new_height == last_height:
            break
        last_height = new_height
When you scroll down the page should load the html. But it can depend on the website. AFter you scroll to the bottom, you can then obtain driver.page_source
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#3
(Jul-30-2019, 09:07 PM)metulburr Wrote: This is a better method to scroll to the bottom. It automatically identified the end of the page instead of arbitrary scrolling (and much faster too).
def scroll_to_bottom(driver):
    driver = self.browser
    SCROLL_PAUSE_TIME = 0.5
    # Get scroll height
    last_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")

    while True:
        # Scroll down to bottom
        driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")

        # Wait to load page
        time.sleep(SCROLL_PAUSE_TIME)

        # Calculate new scroll height and compare with last scroll height
        new_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")
        if new_height == last_height:
            break
        last_height = new_height
When you scroll down the page should load the html. But it can depend on the website. AFter you scroll to the bottom, you can then obtain driver.page_source

Hello, apologies for the delayed response. I got caught up with my day job for the last week & just made some time yesterday and today for updating you guys on this.

Before I begin let me thank you a ton for giving me a general guideline on how scrolling works on Selenium Python. The above code didn't exactly scroll for me but I figured it out using my below ammended script. I had to add
elm.send_Keys
because for some weird reason the page wasn't loading the data if I straight away went to the end of the page. So after every scroll to end I needed to scroll up and then scroll down again and finally loop it as you showed.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time


driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8039/commentary/65234/australia-vs-pakistan-final-icc-world-cup-1999?innings=1')

SCROLL_PAUSE_TIME = 2
elm = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('html')

# Get scroll height
last_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")

while True:
    # Scroll down to almost the bottom of the page
    driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, (document.body.scrollHeight-400));")

    # Time Taken to Load the page
    time.sleep(SCROLL_PAUSE_TIME)

    # Scrolling Up & Down to load more Data
    elm.send_keys(Keys.HOME)
    time.sleep(1)
    elm.send_keys(Keys.END)
    time.sleep(1)

    # Calculate the new scrolling height and then compare it to old height
    new_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")
    if new_height == last_height:
        break
    last_height = new_height
So the first problem of my project is resolved, the page gets scrolled until the data stops to load which now leads us to problem two. Problem two requires me to get two things from this scrolled webpage:

1) every instance of the text ", no run,"
2) every player that incurred this value

Every instance of this text is in the format of "(player name), no run,". I need to store this data by player name and how many no runs he or she incur in this. I check the page source after it completely loads but unfortunately it does not show all the data for the webpage so most probably I would have to inspect element? & if so how do I go about it?

Regards
Waqas
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#4
So after 3 odd weeks of trying to find some time, I finally managed to get this set completed. The code below does the following things:

1) Opens A Firefox Instance,
2) Scrolls to the End of the Page
3) Reads the total number of overs a team has played
4) Counts the total number of dot balls
5) Pie Charts the results


import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import rc
import pandas as pd
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8039/commentary/65234/australia-vs-pakistan-final-icc-world-cup-1999?innings=1')

SCROLL_PAUSE_TIME = 2
elm = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('html')

# Get scroll height
last_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")

while True:
    # Scroll down to almost the bottom of the page
    driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, (document.body.scrollHeight-400));")

    # Time Taken to Load the page
    time.sleep(SCROLL_PAUSE_TIME)

    # Scrolling Up & Down to load more Data
    elm.send_keys(Keys.HOME)
    time.sleep(1)
    elm.send_keys(Keys.END)
    time.sleep(1)

    # Calculate the new scrolling height and then compare it to old height
    new_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")
    if new_height == last_height:
        break
    last_height = new_height

#Saving & Converting the entire souce of the Page into a variable
testVariable = driver.page_source
testVariable = str(testVariable)
vanillaData = testVariable.split('window.__INITIAL_STATE__ = {', 1)[0] + 'window.__INITIAL_STATE__ = {'

#------------------------------------------------------------------X-------------------------------------------------------------X

#Declaring dots as a string and counting Total number of dot balls
dots = ', no run,'
totalDots = vanillaData.count(dots)
print("Total Dot Balls Faced = " + str(totalDots))

#Finding Total Number of Balls/Overs In Innings
findTotalballData = vanillaData.find('<div class="time-stamp" data-reactid="')
conVersion_find = int(findTotalballData)
findValue = findTotalballData + 43
conVersion_findValue = int(findValue)
check_firstCharacter = vanillaData[conVersion_findValue]
secondCharacter = findValue + 1
check_secondCharacter = vanillaData[secondCharacter]
thirdCharacter = findValue + 2
check_thirdCharacter = vanillaData[thirdCharacter]
fourthCharacter = findValue + 3
check_fourthCharacter = vanillaData[fourthCharacter]
fifthCharacter = findValue + 4
check_fifthCharacter = vanillaData[fifthCharacter]
if check_fifthCharacter == '<':
    sumOvers = check_firstCharacter + check_secondCharacter + check_thirdCharacter + check_fourthCharacter
else:
    sumOvers = check_firstCharacter + check_secondCharacter + check_thirdCharacter + check_fourthCharacter + check_fifthCharacter

overs = sumOvers.split('.')[0]
balls = sumOvers.split('.')[1]
convert_overs = int(overs)
convert_balls = int(balls)
totalBalls = (convert_overs * 6) + convert_balls
conVersion_totalBalls = str(totalBalls)
print("Total Deliveries Faced = " + conVersion_totalBalls)

if convert_balls == 6:
    totalOvers = convert_overs + 1
    conVersion_totalOvers = float(totalOvers)
    # round_totalOvers = round(totalOvers, 2)
    # conVersion_round_totalOvers = str(round_totalOvers)
    print("Total Overs Faced = " + str(conVersion_totalOvers))
else:
    totalOvers = str(sumOvers)
    print("Total Overs Faced = " + totalOvers)

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------X---------------------------------------------X

#Plotting the Bar Chart
forBarPlot = totalBalls - totalDots

# y-axis in bold
rc('font', weight='bold')

# Values of each group
bars1 = [totalDots]
bars2 = [forBarPlot]

# Heights of bars1 + bars2
bars = np.add(bars1, bars2).tolist()

# The position of the bar on the x-axis (Can start from 0,1,2,.....2 is the middle position)
r = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

# Names of group and bar width
names = ['Dot Balls']
barWidth = 1


# Create orange bars
plt.bar(r[2], bars1, color='orange', edgecolor='white', width=barWidth)
# Create green bars (middle), on top of the firs ones
plt.bar(r[2], bars2, bottom=bars1, color='green', edgecolor='white', width=barWidth)
 
# Custom X axis
plt.xticks(r, names, fontweight='bold')
plt.xlabel("Graphical Represenation of Total Dot Balls")

# Show graphic
plt.show()

#-------------------------------------------------------------X---------------------------------------------------------------X

labels = 'Total Balls', 'Dot Balls'
sizes = [totalBalls, totalDots]
colors = ['yellowgreen', 'yellow']
explode = [0.1, 0] #Explode 1st Slice

#Plotting the Pie Chart
plt.pie(sizes, explode=explode, labels=labels, colors=colors, autopct='%1.1f%%', shadow=True, startangle=140)
plt.axis('equal')
plt.show()

#Plotting the Pie Chart
plt.pie(sizes, explode=explode, labels=labels, colors=colors, autopct='%1.1f%%', shadow=True, startangle=140)
plt.axis('equal')
plt.show()


# For Calculation we have totalBalls, totalOvers, totalDots

# f = open('html.txt', "a+")
# f.write(testVariable)
# f.close()
Many Thanks to @metulburr for all his help on this problem set. The next phase of this project is to count runs scored by each batsmen along with individual dot balls and then charting the results as a table and exporting to CSV.

As of right now, the initial problem of scrolling and getting total dot balls has been successfully resolved! Thanks :)
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