pageLoadTimeout in Selenium not working

5
votes

I am using below code using selenium in Java. I am adding pageLoadTimeout of 4 seconds, however, the driver continues to wait till the complete page is loaded. Any help?

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", System.getProperty("user.home") + "\\Desktop\\geckodriver.exe");

        FirefoxBinary b = new FirefoxBinary(new File(System.getProperty("user.home") + "\\desktop\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe"));
        FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions().setBinary(b);
        driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
        //driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(4, TimeUnit.SECONDS);


        driver.get("https://www.booking.com/hotel/in/the-taj-mahal-palace-tower.html?label=gen173nr-1FCAEoggJCAlhYSDNiBW5vcmVmaGyIAQGYATG4AQbIAQzYAQHoAQH4AQKSAgF5qAID;sid=338ad58d8e83c71e6aa78c67a2996616;dest_id=-2092174;dest_type=city;dist=0;group_adults=2;hip_dst=1;hpos=1;room1=A%2CA;sb_price_type=total;srfid=ccd41231d2f37b82d695970f081412152a59586aX1;srpvid=c71751e539ea01ce;type=total;ucfs=1&#hotelTmpl");
List<WebElement> facilitySectionList = driver.findElements(By.className("facilitiesChecklistSection"));
3
javaseleniumselenium-webdriverwebdriverpageloadtimeout
It took around 4-5 sec in my side to load full page. is your internet connectivity is fine? - Shubham Jain
maybe the office network is causing some problem in loading the page. Nevertheless, any ideas on the timeout thing? - Bharat Nanwani
Wait for Support a timeout argument on page load operations to get resolved for pageLoadTimeout. - DebanjanB

3 Answers

4
votes

The solution to your pageLoadTimeout issue would be to bump up your Selenium version to v3.5.0. Here is effective code block and the resulted org.openqa.selenium.TimeoutException: Timeout loading page after 2000ms of your own code in minimal lines:

  • Code block:

    public class Q45591282_pageloadtimeout 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
          System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");
          WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
          driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
          driver.get("https://www.booking.com/hotel/in/the-taj-mahal-palace-tower.html?label=gen173nr-1FCAEoggJCAlhYSDNiBW5vcmVmaGyIAQGYATG4AQbIAQzYAQHoAQH4AQKSAgF5qAID;sid=338ad58d8e83c71e6aa78c67a2996616;dest_id=-2092174;dest_type=city;dist=0;group_adults=2;hip_dst=1;hpos=1;room1=A%2CA;sb_price_type=total;srfid=ccd41231d2f37b82d695970f081412152a59586aX1;srpvid=c71751e539ea01ce;type=total;ucfs=1&#hotelTmpl");
    }
}

  • Console Output:

    1502530864350   geckodriver INFO    geckodriver 0.18.0
1502530864365   geckodriver INFO    Listening on 127.0.0.1:29688
1502530865042   geckodriver::marionette INFO    Starting browser C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe with args ["-marionette"]
1502530903170   Marionette  INFO    Listening on port 1900
Aug 12, 2017 3:11:44 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Detected dialect: W3C
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.TimeoutException: Timeout loading page after 2000ms
Build info: version: '3.5.0', revision: '8def36e068', time: '2017-08-10T23:00:22.093Z'
System info: host: 'ATECHM-03', ip: '192.168.1.48', os.name: 'Windows 8', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.2', java.version: '1.8.0_77'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
Capabilities [{moz:profile=C:\Users\ATECHM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\rust_mozprofile.LSsvaNqlDbxE, rotatable=false, timeouts={implicit=0.0, pageLoad=300000.0, script=30000.0}, pageLoadStrategy=normal, platform=ANY, specificationLevel=0.0, moz:accessibilityChecks=false, acceptInsecureCerts=false, browserVersion=53.0, platformVersion=6.2, moz:processID=3652.0, browserName=firefox, javascriptEnabled=true, platformName=windows_nt}]
Session ID: 8b841376-00fd-4359-8cae-a68912b23706
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.createException(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:185)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:120)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:49)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:164)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:641)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.get(RemoteWebDriver.java:368)
    at demo.Q45591282_pageloadtimeout.main(Q45591282_pageloadtimeout.java:20)

Catching the WebDriverException

  • Code Block:

    public class pageLoadTimeout 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
          System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe");
          WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
          driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
          try{
              driver.get("https://www.booking.com/hotel/in/the-taj-mahal-palace-tower.html?label=gen173nr-1FCAEoggJCAlhYSDNiBW5vcmVmaGyIAQGYATG4AQbIAQzYAQHoAQH4AQKSAgF5qAID;sid=338ad58d8e83c71e6aa78c67a2996616;dest_id=-2092174;dest_type=city;dist=0;group_adults=2;hip_dst=1;hpos=1;room1=A%2CA;sb_price_type=total;srfid=ccd41231d2f37b82d695970f081412152a59586aX1;srpvid=c71751e539ea01ce;type=total;ucfs=1&#hotelTmpl");
          }catch(WebDriverException e){
              System.out.println("WebDriverException occured");
          }
          driver.quit();
    }
}

  • Console Output:

    Only local connections are allowed.
Please protect ports used by ChromeDriver and related test frameworks to prevent access by malicious code.
Jul 17, 2019 8:53:26 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Detected dialect: W3C
[1563377008.449][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: 1.999
[1563377008.450][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: -0.001
[1563377008.461][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: -0.012
[1563377010.466][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: 1.998
[1563377010.467][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: -0.001
[1563377010.476][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: -0.010
WebDriverException occured
0
votes

if you specify the time, and selenium is not able to load the site is specified time, it will throw TimedoutException. You should handle that in your code. 

    driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(4, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    try{
        driver.get("https://yahoo.com");
    }catch (TimeoutException te){
        long estimatedTime = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime;
        System.out.println("it took "+estimatedTime+" Time");
    }

if it's not throwing TimeoutException, either website has done loading within specified time or something is wrong with Selenium API.

-1
votes

WebDriver.Timeouts -> pageLoadTimeout(long time, java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit unit) Sets the amount of time to wait for a page load to complete before throwing an error.

pageLoadTimeout

WebDriver.Timeouts pageLoadTimeout(long time,java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit unit)

Sets the amount of time to wait for a page load to complete before throwing an error. If the timeout is negative, page loads can be indefinite. Parameters: time - The timeout value. unit - The unit of time. Returns: A Timeouts interface.

https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/WebDriver.Timeouts.html