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Improved crawler support for dynamically loaded pages #2710

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Related Issue(s): #2658 #2679

Proposed changes:

  • To avoid errors when objects are removed from DOM after Crawler has captured the links, now we have error treatment
  • It has been included in constructor and class methods one optional argument: loading_wait_time. If this argument is not provided Crawler won't wait to begin scraping, and if any element is removed from DOM the error treatment will be triggered, the error will be logged and Crawler will continue. If provided (in seconds), Crawler will wait x seconds after each page load before it begins scraping. After a long investigation the preferred method was timer.sleep despite Selenium having an implicit wait, this choice was made due to instabilities on some browser and driver versions which turned it useless.
  • Test has been added for dynamic DOM scenario
  • Some methods that Selenium will be deprecating have been updated to new ones

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@ZanSara ZanSara self-requested a review June 23, 2022 07:47
@ZanSara ZanSara added type:bug Something isn't working type:feature New feature or request topic:crawler labels Jun 23, 2022
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Thank you very much for this contribution! 😊 This PR looks very good already. I added a few comments, but they're all marginal improvements, as I detected no issues with your code.

Let me know if you have the time to address these points, otherwise I'll help you with them so that we can merge this soon.

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Hi @ZanSara

Thanks for the kind answer! I have committed the changes. I decided to move the result to a text file since there is no reason to crawl again, as we are setting up an artificial result for the dynamic DOM.

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ZanSara commented Jun 24, 2022

Hi @danielbichuetti, great, this looks really good! I'll wait for the CI to complete and if there's no issue with the tests I'll approve and merge 👍 Thank you for the contribution! 😊

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Great, thank you! I left two comments, about really small details. If you don't have time to address them no problem, I'll take care of them and merge afterwards 👍

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Any more changes required before merging this PR ?

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@ZanSara ZanSara merged commit e3b2ee9 into deepset-ai:master Jul 1, 2022
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ZanSara commented Jul 1, 2022

No, that's good! Thank you for the contribution! 🙂

@danielbichuetti danielbichuetti deleted the add_crawler_loading_wait_time branch July 4, 2022 14:32
Krak91 pushed a commit to Krak91/haystack that referenced this pull request Jul 26, 2022
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Improved crawler support for dynamically loaded pages (deepset-ai#2710)
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* Improved crawler support for dynamically loaded pages

* Reduced scope of StaleElementReferenceException and removed deprecated code from WebDriver initialization

* Improvements on crawler testing code

* Code format and style applied on f028331

* Update Documentation & Code Style

* Remove unused imports/parameters

Co-authored-by: Sara Zan <sara.zanzottera@deepset.ai>
Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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