Python phantomjs loading webpage not correct

Question

I have an issue where extracting from this link

http://www.bursamalaysia.com/market/listed-companies/company-announcements/#/?category=FA&sub_category=FA1&alphabetical=All&company=5250

brings me data from this link instead which is the main page itself. http://www.bursamalaysia.com/market/listed-companies/company-announcements/#/?category=all

Any idea why is this occuring ? I am using PhantomJS selenium and beautiful soup to assit me in this.

# The standard library modules
import os
import sys
import re
import sqlite3
import locale
# The wget module
import wget
import time
import calendar
from datetime import datetime
# The BeautifulSoup module
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

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


def getURLS(url):
    driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(service_args=['--ignore-ssl-errors=true'])
    driver.get(url) # load the web page
    src = driver.page_source
    #Get text and split it
    soup = BeautifulSoup(src, 'html5lib')

    print soup

link ='http://www.bursamalaysia.com/market/listed-companies/company-announcements/#/?category=FA&sub_category=FA1&alphabetical=All&company=5250'
getURLS(link)

Solution from Alex Lucaci

def getURLS(url):
    driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(service_args=['--ignore-ssl-errors=true'])
    driver.get(url) # load the web page
    src = driver.page_source
    category_select = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="bm_announcement_types"]'))
    category_select.select_by_visible_text("Financial Results")
    category_select2 = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="bm_sub_announcement_types"]'))
    category_select2.select_by_visible_text("Financial Results")
    category_select3 = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="bm_company_list"]'))
    category_select3.select_by_visible_text("7-ELEVEN MALAYSIA HOLDINGS BERHAD (5250)")
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="bm_company_announcements_search_form"]/input[1]').click()
    src = driver.page_source
    soup = BeautifulSoup(src, 'html5lib')
    link="http://www.bursamalaysia.com/market/listed-companies/company-announcements/#/?category=all"
    getURLS(link)

Answer 1

When you are saving the source the page is not completely loaded with your submitted post so try to wait for a couple of second before fetching the page source:

def getURLS(url):
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(service_args=['--ignore-ssl-errors=true'])
driver.get(url) # load the web page
time.sleep(5)# waiting for 5 seconds before fetching the source
src = driver.page_source
#Get text and split it
soup = BeautifulSoup(src, 'html5lib')

print soup

To perform dropdown select you have import the Select class as follow : from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select and then you have to select the dropdown element like that:

category_select = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="bm_announcement_types"]'))
category_select.select_by_visible_text('Financial Results')

In my example I've done it for the -Category- dropdown, follow the exact steps for every category. Note that selecting the dropdown by xpath is the best way and you can achieve this by using Google Chrome -> righ click on the element -> Inspect-> right click on the <select> in the right menu that appeared -> Copy -> Copy Xpath

When you`ve selected all the element you have to click the Submit and wait for a couple of seconds to load and after that you will fetch the source code.

Let me know if my answer helped you.