Selenium-Webdriver Node.js Can't Find New Window

Question

I'm running a selenium-webdriver javascript scraper, which logs into a site and clicks a button that launches a new tab/window. I'm trying to switch the driver to focus on the newly generated window, but Selenium cannot find it. The code I have to look:

driver.sleep(10000).then(function() {
    driver.getAllWindowHandles().then(function(d) {
        console.log(d);
    })
})

Which prints

[ '287ab61a-b155-46de-a2a6-298e0e98e440' ]

Which is the original browser window. What could cause Selenium to not pick up on the new window?

try to print the size of number of elements you are getting from the method getAllWindowHandles() — Paras

Greg Greg · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-16T20:17:42

This is what I use whenever I need to switch to a new tab:

const tabs = await driver.getAllWindowHandles();
await driver.switchToWindow(tabs[1]);

If you want to switch back to the main tab just use tab[0].

Selenium-Webdriver Node.js Can't Find New Window

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