How to get html information from a tab of my default browser opened with webbrowser?

[noahverner1995]

I have tried to figure out how can I get html information (such as h1 tags) from a new tab in my default browser that was opened with the following program:

 import tkinter as tk #from tkinter import filedialog import webbrowser from bs4 import BeautifulSoup root = tk.Tk() #create a GUI element root.geometry('500x400') #resolution root.title("Bulkdozer") #Name of this program root.attributes('-topmost', True) #keep the program's window top-most def open_chrome_profile(): soup = BeautifulSoup(webbrowser.open_new_tab('https://opensea.io/asset/create'), 'html.parser') #open a new tab using user's default browser content = soup.find('h1', {"class": "Blockreact__Block-sc-1xf18x6-0 Textreact__Text-sc-1w94ul3-0 dBFmez llcnwK"}) print(content) #####BUTTON ZONE####### open_browser = tk.Button(root, width=20, text="Open OpenSea Tab", command=open_chrome_profile) #executes the function when clicked open_browser.grid(row=22, column=1) #####BUTTON ZONE END####### root.mainloop()

The program above does open the corresponding tab, but also throws the following error at the line of soup variable:

Output:
TypeError: object of type 'bool' has no len()

And it doesn't print the content variable.

The reason for developing this in such a particular way is because I'm trying to make a program that will take control of user's default browser to make some repetitive tasks, and such automated process must be done using the default browser because it will have the Metamask extension that has been previously installed by the user.

May I know any ways of solving this problem?

[buran]

webbrowser.open_new_tab() returns boolean value. It does not return html source of the page you open.

You can use requests package or if the webpage uses JavaScript you should use tools like Selenium. webbrowser module from standard library is useless for a task such this.
Alternatively, or I would say as a better approach, you can explore the available third-party package to deal with this specific site/API
https://pypi.org/search/?q=opensea

[noahverner1995]

webbrowser.open_new_tab() returns boolean value. It does not return html source of the page you open.

You can use requests package or if the webpage uses JavaScript you should use tools like Selenium. webbrowser module from standard library is useless for a task such this.
Alternatively, or I would say as a better approach, you can explore the available third-party package to deal with this specific site/API
https://pypi.org/search/?q=opensea

Thank for the feedback, I think I managed to deal with it, here:

import tkinter as tk #from tkinter import filedialog #import webbrowser from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service root = tk.Tk() root.geometry('500x400') #resolution root.title("Bulkdozer") #Name of this program root.attributes('-topmost', True) #keep the program's window top-most opt = Options() #selenium options opt.add_argument("--user-data-dir="+r"C:\Users\ResetStoreX\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data") #PATH profile opt.add_argument('--profile-directory=Default') #Profile to use s = Service('C:/Users/ResetStoreX/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python39/Scripts/chromedriver.exe') def open_chrome_profile(): #webbrowser.open_new_tab('https://opensea.io/asset/create') #open a new tab using user's default browser driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=s, options=opt) driver.get('https://opensea.io/asset/create') #####BUTTON ZONE####### open_browser = tk.Button(root, width=20, text="Open OpenSea Tab", command=open_chrome_profile) #executes the function when clicked open_browser.grid(row=22, column=1) #####BUTTON ZONE END####### root.mainloop()

I removed the Default word from the profile PATH.

And I passed the absolute path of the ChromeDriver within the Service() function.