Selenium-based Website Search Automation

This function uses the Selenium library to search for a given query on a specified website and waits for the search results to load.

Technology Stack : Selenium, WebDriver, WebDriverWait, expected_conditions

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

def search_item_on_website(url, search_query):
    # Initialize the WebDriver
    driver = webdriver.Chrome()
    
    # Open the URL
    driver.get(url)
    
    # Wait for the search box to be clickable and then enter the search query
    search_box = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.NAME, "q"))
    )
    search_box.clear()
    search_box.send_keys(search_query)
    search_box.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
    
    # Wait for the search results to load
    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "search-results"))
    )
    
    # Close the browser
    driver.quit()