how to go to changed url in selenium python

Question

i am a completely beginner in programming, and i am trying to make my first python script, and i have a url in this form: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ID

where ID is changed every time in a loop, and a list of IDs given in a text file.

now i tried to do it this way:

if id_str != "":

     y = f'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/{id}'

     browser.get(y)

but it opens only the first ID in the text file, so i need to know how to make it get a different ID from the text file every time.

Thanks in Advance

Prophet · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-02 11:34:02Z

2

Generally it can be something like this:

with open(filename) as file:
    lines = file.readlines()
    for line in lines:
        if id_str != "":
            y = f'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/{id_str}'
            browser.get(y)

where filename is a text file containing questions ids.
Each line here containing a single id string.
It can be more complicated, according to your needs / implementation.

edited Mar 2, 2022 at 11:34

answered Mar 2, 2022 at 11:21

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3 Comments

Eb J Over a year ago

I believe the placeholder in the formatted string should be id_str and not id

wezzo Over a year ago

it says: name 'ids' is not defined ids.txt is the file name

Prophet Over a year ago

Where do you see ids variable in my code?

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