How to get Selenium to wait for a transition page to redirect before running an assertion

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I have a fairly standard situation: Click a button, it loads a transition page with a progress bar or something, and then that page redirects to the next page, which takes a while to load.

I want to run assertions on the final page, not the transition page. How do I tell Selenium IDE to wait till the final page loads before performing the assertions?

Thank you.

score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 03 '23 at 10:15

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A simple approach would be wait for some "particular" text on that final page, see "waitForText" command for further info on it.

edited Jul 03 '23 at 10:15

Benjamin Loison

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answered Jan 08 '10 at 00:25

John

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sweet. One thing I did was add a setTimeout target=XXXX (in ms) command before the waitForText, and that cut down the time it waited when the assertion wasn't met. Thanks a lot, John. – marc esher Jan 08 '10 at 13:24
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You can also use waitForLocation and give it the url. – user3735633 Jun 08 '15 at 22:18
how do you do waitForLocation ? – poyger Nov 16 '17 at 15:06
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new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).Until(ExpectedConditions.UrlToBe("my-url")) – trav.chung Nov 22 '19 at 20:03
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driver.wait(until.urlContains("part_of_expected_URL")) or driver.wait(until.urlIs("expected_URL")) – koalix Feb 13 '21 at 09:32

score 11 · Answer 2 · edited May 06 '19 at 14:24

To add to John's approach, you can use the Selenium wait mechanism to verify that elements on your final page are present like so:

Java:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, 10); // seconds
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("foo")));

Ruby:

wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(timeout: 10) # seconds
wait.until { driver.find_element(id: "foo") }

This will properly follow any redirects involved.

Example from https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/RubyBindings

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 01 '11 at 17:11

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You could call wait_for_page twice in a row. The first waits for the redirect, the second for the final page.

answered Mar 01 '11 at 17:11

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 03 '23 at 10:41

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You can also wait until the page title is an expected value:

$driver->wait()->until(WebDriverExpectedCondition::titleIs('New page title from redirect'));

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answered Jan 31 '18 at 23:02

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How to get Selenium to wait for a transition page to redirect before running an assertion

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