Is it possible to stop page loading on the browser using selenium web-driver?

Question

I searched online, but couldn't find anything about how to stop page loading over a browser using selenium web-driver.

Any idea for the same?

• Phil Kirkham: Can you explain what you mean by 'stop page loading' ?
• squeemish: he wants the page to stop loading...

Answer 1

This might be useful.

driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")).sendKeys("Keys.ESCAPE");

OR

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
js.executeScript("return window.stop");

You must use driver.page_load_strategy = 'none' if using chrome else chromedriver will wait for full url to load before performing execution

• Adam Garner: The find element body did not work for me as it could not find the element until the page loaded. However the Javascript works beautifully

Answer 2

If you want to simulate the browser's STOP button, this post should help you out https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5453423/how-to-stop-the-page-loading-in-firefox-programaticaly

• CodeLover: yeah! I have gone through that post earlier,but couldn't understand how to really write it... as that was shorthand code. can you help me on that?

Answer 3

If you are using firefox then you can set preference for default timeout:

fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
fp.set_preference("http.response.timeout", 5)
fp.set_preference("dom.max_script_run_time", 5)
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp)
driver.get("http://www.google.com/")

This will stop page load after 5 seconds.

• invzbl3: I get: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: dom.max_script_run_time must be == 0 || >= 30 So, minimum is 30 seconds or 0.

Answer 4

There were a few possible solutions to this over on Stackoverflow on Stop browser load from selenium webdriver.

This included:

• Installing an extension in Chrome called Stop load
• using the built in pageLoadTimeout() method in Selenium
• using Sikuli or Autoit to access the browser's native controls

Answer 5

Here is a function you may call to set the page load timeout you need.

• LittlePanda: Link only answers are not encouraged. Please add the solution part of the link to your answer.
• Frank H.: Also, the link is dead.

Answer 6

I use three steps with chrome and it works:

1. Navigate to "about:blank"
2. Get element "body"
3. On that element send keys "Esc"

Answer 7

We can use windows.stop(); in order to stop the page loading. Try the below code:

driver.execute_script("window.stop();")

Answer 8

The .execute_script() method didn't work for me as it turned out the specified script was executing on an about:blank page before it visited the url. What did work for me was injecting the script into the chromedriver session itself (such that the script runs for every page load) inspired from this SO answer.

driver.execute_cdp_cmd('Page.addScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument', {'source': 'setTimeout(function(){window.stop();}, 5000);'})
driver.get(urls)