I have the following piece of code which loads a page and follows a link within it, using asyncio.gather as recommended in the documentation for the click method:
import asyncio
import pyppeteer
async def main(selector):
browser = await pyppeteer.launch()
page = await browser.newPage()
await page.goto("https://example.org")
result = await asyncio.gather(
page.waitForNavigation(),
page.click(selector),
)
result = next(filter(None, result))
if result and isinstance(result, pyppeteer.network_manager.Response):
print(result.status, result.url)
if __name__ == "__main__":
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main(selector="a"))
This works wonders when the click method does trigger a navigation event:
200 https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
But I'm trying to write generic code that could handle any selector, even those which would not cause a navigation. If I change the selector to "h1" I get the following timeout, because there is no navigation to wait for:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "stackoverflow.py", line 20, in <module>
loop.run_until_complete(main(selector="h1"))
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/base_events.py", line 484, in run_until_complete
return future.result()
File "stackoverflow.py", line 12, in main
page.click(selector),
File "/.../lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyppeteer/page.py", line 938, in waitForNavigation
raise error
pyppeteer.errors.TimeoutError: Navigation Timeout Exceeded: 30000 ms exceeded.
I could not find a way to detect whether or not the click event would produce an additional request, in order to avoid the Page.waitForNavigation call. Is it possible? Thanks in advance for your time!
