Pressing Browser’s Refresh Button – Selenium

Pressing the Browser’s Refresh Button

To simulate pressing of the browser’s refresh button to reload the page using Selenium for Python, call refresh() method on the Web Driver object.

driver.refresh()

Example

1. Initialise Chrome Web Driver object as driver.
2. Get the URL https://pythonexamples.org/ using web driver object.
3. Press browser’s refresh button using driver.refresh().

Python Program

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

service = Service(executable_path="/usr/local/bin/chromedriver")
#initialize web driver
with webdriver.Chrome(service=service) as driver:
    #navigate to the url
    driver.get('https://pythonexamples.org/')
    #press on browser's refresh button
    driver.refresh()

Screenshots

Navigation Step #1 : Get the URL https://pythonexamples.org/.

Navigation Step #2 : Find OpenCV link and click on it.

Summary

In this Python Selenium Tutorial, we learned how to press the browser’s refresh button programmatically using driver.refresh() method.