Wednesday, 10 October 2018

Script Suddenly Stops Crawling Without Error or Exception

I'm not sure why, but my script always stops crawling once it hits page 9. There are no errors, exceptions, or warnings, so I'm kind of at a loss.

Can somebody help me out?

P.S. Here is the full script in case anybody wants to test it for themselves!

def initiate_crawl():
    def refresh_page(url):
        ff = create_webdriver_instance()
        ff.get(url)
        ff.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="FilterItemView_sortOrder_dropdown"]/div/span[2]/span/span/span/span').click()
        ff.find_element(By.XPATH, '//a[contains(text(), "Discount - High to Low")]').click()
        items = WebDriverWait(ff, 15).until(
            EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, '//div[contains(@id, "100_dealView_")]'))
        )
        print(len(items))
        for count, item in enumerate(items):
            slashed_price = item.find_elements(By.XPATH, './/span[contains(@class, "a-text-strike")]')
            active_deals = item.find_elements(By.XPATH, './/*[contains(text(), "Add to Cart")]')
            if len(slashed_price) > 0 and len(active_deals) > 0:
                product_title = item.find_element(By.ID, 'dealTitle').text
                if product_title not in already_scraped_product_titles:
                    already_scraped_product_titles.append(product_title)
                    url = ff.current_url
                    ff.quit()
                    refresh_page(url)
                    break
            if count+1 is len(items):
                try:
                    next_button = WebDriverWait(ff, 15).until(
                        EC.text_to_be_present_in_element((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, 'Next→'), 'Next→')
                    )
                    ff.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, 'Next→').click()
                    url = ff.current_url
                    ff.quit()
                    refresh_page(url)
                except Exception as error:
                    print(error)
                    ff.quit()

    refresh_page('https://www.amazon.ca/gp/goldbox/ref=gbps_ftr_s-3_4bc8_dct_10-?gb_f_c2xvdC0z=sortOrder:BY_SCORE,discountRanges:10-25%252C25-50%252C50-70%252C70-&pf_rd_p=f5836aee-0969-4c39-9720-4f0cacf64bc8&pf_rd_s=slot-3&pf_rd_t=701&pf_rd_i=gb_main&pf_rd_m=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&pf_rd_r=CQ7KBNXT36G95190QJB1&ie=UTF8')

initiate_crawl()

I duplicated the if count+1 ... statement on the same level as the if product_title not in ... level, and received the following error:

HTTPConnectionPool(host='127.0.0.1', port=58992): Max retries exceeded with url: /session/e8beed9b-4faa-4e91-a659-56761cb604d7/element (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x0000022D31378A58>: Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it'))

It's obvious what this means, but I'm not sure why only the additional if statement would invoke this error.

Printing the length of items invokes some strange behaviour too. Instead of it always returning 32, which would correspond to the number of items on each page, it prints 32 for the first page, 64 for the second, 96 for the third, so on and so forth.



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