Using selenium and python. I am trying to get a URL and save it by doing this:
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://google.com")
elem = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/div/div[3]/div[1]/div/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/a")
elem.click()
url = driver.current_url
print url
url that prints is google.com and not the new clicked link which gmail. My question is, how can I get the second url and save it.
You are getting the current url before the new page is loaded. Add an Explicit Wait to, for instance, wait for the page title to contain "Gmail":
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://google.com")
# click "Gmail" link
elem = driver.find_element_by_link_text("Gmail")
elem.click()
# wait for the page to load
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
wait.until(EC.title_contains("Gmail"))
url = driver.current_url
print(url)
Also note how I've improved the way to locate the Gmail link.