For scrapy/selenium is there a way to go back to a previous page?

Question

I essentially have a start_url that has my javascript search form and button, hence the need of selenium. I use selenium to select the appropriate items in my select box objects

Answer 1

The currently selected answer provides a link to an external site and that link is broken. The selenium docs talk about

driver.forward()
driver.back()

but those will sometimes fail, even if you explicitly use some wait functions.

I found a better solution. You can use the below command to navigate backwards.

driver.execute_script("window.history.go(-1)")

hope this helps someone else in the future.

Answer 2

To move backwards and forwards in your browser’s history use

driver.forward()
driver.back()

Answer 3

Here the advice is to use driver.back() : https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/navigating.html#navigation-history-and-location