I am trying to scrape a page that upon load, fires up a JS window.alert
The script cannot proceed while this box is present as it stops the rest of the page loading.
How to stop the alert appearing?
I am grabbing the page using requests library.
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Franco
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4BeautifulSoup doesn't execute any Javascript -- it just parses the html you give it. What are you using for the request? `urllib.request` won't do this either, you'd have to use something like `selenium` – Sean Breckenridge Mar 07 '18 at 03:25
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Updated - using `requests` library – Franco Mar 07 '18 at 03:35
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Even `requests` can't do anything about JavaScript. – Keyur Potdar Mar 07 '18 at 03:44
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Yeah, [`requests` can do a lot](https://stackoverflow.com/a/14804320/9348376), but it doesn't actually load the page, and can't interact with it. – Sean Breckenridge Mar 07 '18 at 04:07