I want to use Python to crawl app's version history from Apple Store, for instance: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/netflix/id363590051
To do so, I need to click on the Version History button in What’s New section. Below is the html of Version History, as you can see there is NO url link included:
<div class="version-history">
<button class="we-modal__show link section__nav__see-all-link"
id="modal-trigger-ember107103210"
data-metrics-click="{"actionType":"open","targetType":"button","targetId":"ModalVersionHistory"}"
type="button">Version History</button>
<!----></div>
After clicking the Version History button, a new window containing version info appears within the same page, its html shows like:
<div id="modal-container"> ...version information... </div>
While previously this element was an empty:
<div id="modal-container"></div>
I think it is using Bootstrap’s JavaScript modal plugin. But I have no idea about how to crawl the content requires button click and without url provided above. Could anyone give advice on how to implement this? I have Firefox selenium/requests installed in python. Thanks in advance!
CodePudding user response：
Basically I find a solution. With Selenium, I can using element_to_be_clickable plus Xpath to find the button then click the button. The driver will return the content of the new page
CodePudding user response：
There are two options to show new content after click. 1. Its already loaded and in embedded in sourcecode. 2. A new request gets sended on click event. If its a new Request you can send the request for yourself. But on this page its option 1. So there is a including this data as json.