How to get page source as it is in browser using selenium

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I know that driver.getPageSource() gets you the web page as Html but the issue I am having is that the site I am testing puts data in brackets like {{{DepartDayShort}}}, maybe using some js framework to get the data? I can view the data when I inspect the element in browser but viewing the page source in browser also show only the brackets and not the data.

Below is the website I am testing to be exact:

driver.get("https://www.united.com/ual/en/US/flight-search/book-a-flight/results/rev?f=Miami,+FL,+US+(MIA+-+All+Airports)&t=IAH&d=2020-05-02&r=2020-05-16&sc=7,7&px=1&taxng=1&newHP=True&idx=1");
String pageSource = driver.getPageSource();
Apr 17, 2020 in Selenium by laiman
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Have you tried using 

String pageSource=driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")).getText()

Hi, I tried that but it only gives me stripped-down information like page title and headers. It does not contain much of the pages info.

2 answers to this question.

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Best answer

I needed to wait for an element to load first before getting the page source:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, SECONDS);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.className("ClassName")));
String pageSource = driver.getPageSource();

For further understanding, you can refer to the Selenium Course.

answered Apr 18, 2020 by laiman
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selected Apr 20, 2020 by Sirajul
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I too had faced a problem while viewing the source code in the browser. There were many extra characters that got appended apparently. By using JavaScript code to get the innerHTML property, it finally worked for me. You could probably try executing the following code:

String javascript = "return arguments[0].innerHTML";
String pageSource=(String)(JavascriptExecutor)driver)
    .executeScript(javascript, driver.findElement(By.tagName("html")));
pageSource = "<html>"+pageSource +"</html>";
System.out.println(pageSource);
//FileUtils.write(new File("e:\\test.html"), pageSource,);
answered Apr 17, 2020 by Liana

Hi, this is an interesting approach. However, it was still not getting the data I was looking for. It did head me in the right direction as I needed to use  WebDriverWait wait and ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable to get the data.

I had this in a different situation where the page is different from the save page data, and it worked perfect.

String javascript = "return arguments[0].innerHTML";
String pageSource =(String)((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript(javascript, driver.findElement(By.tagName("html")));
pageSource = "<html>"+pageSource +"</html>";

Hey @Laiman, Thanks a lot for your contribution. Could you please update the original answer?

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