Scrolling to top of the page in Python using Selenium

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I'm having issues with scrolling to the top of the web page when using Python and Selenium.

When the page loads for some reason you are taken to the bottom of the page (this is due to be fixed). However, when I'm trying to scroll to the top it does not work.

I tried the following:

self.driver.execute_script("scroll(0, -250);")

And

self.driver.execute_script("scroll(0, 0);")

I have also tried locating the element then scrolling to it:

self.driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView()", element)

The above scrollIntoView() code works when scrolling down to the element. However, it does not work scrolling up.

I have tried this running Chrome Driver and PhantomJs.

Any suggestions?

have you tried putting window.scrollTo(0, 0); inside of your execute_script? — Mangohero1
– Mangohero1, Commented Aug 8, 2017 at 19:54
@mangoHero1 I've tried self.driver.window.scroll("window.scroll(0, 0);") and the script displayed the following error: self.driver.window.scroll("window.scroll(0, 0);") AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'window' — cmplfore
– cmplfore, Commented Aug 8, 2017 at 19:59
@mangoHero1 sorry I saw the typo corrected it and did the following: self.driver.execute_script("window.scroll(0, 0);") still didnt scroll up. — cmplfore
– cmplfore, Commented Aug 8, 2017 at 20:01
@jlaur yeah sorry this was done late at night and I typed the code above. What i actually tried, which didnt work, was the following: self.driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, 0);") — cmplfore
– cmplfore, Commented Aug 9, 2017 at 7:19

cottontail · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-12 08:47:40Z

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You can simply use CTRL + HOME keys. It will scroll to the top of the page.

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + Keys.HOME)

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ErichBSchulz Over a year ago

probably need to from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys first?

SunilThorat Over a year ago

@ErichBSchulz, yes, that's correct. Keys needs to be imported.

NotAPro Over a year ago

This doesn't seem to work if the browser is minimized

Haddock-san Over a year ago

If you get the following warning: DeprecationWarning: find_element_by_* commands are deprecated. Please use find_element() instead change the code to:

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + Keys.HOME)

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-09 04:43:42Z

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You can consider to locate the element in the HTML DOM first, then we can scroll the element into the Viewport as follows:

element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("element_xpath")
self.driver.execute_script("return arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element)

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Luca Giovanni Voglino · Accepted Answer · 2023-01-25 16:09:30Z

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You can use document.body.scrollTop: it will scroll to the top of the page no matter the height of it. Like this:

driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollTop);")

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surender pal · Accepted Answer · 2022-11-10 10:19:21Z

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There are 4 ways to scroll up or down

1)scroll by pixel

driver.execute_script("window.scrollBy(0,0)","")

2)scroll down until the element is not found

element=driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"xpath of element")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();",element)

3)scroll till the end of the page

driver.execute_script("window.scrollBy(0,document.body.scrollHeight)")

using Action Chains

elementpos=driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"xpath of element")
actions=ActionChains(driver) actions.move_to_element(elementpos).perform()

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Hamza Anis · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-26 13:29:24Z

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from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("__")

#to scroll try use the following command
driver.execute_script("scrollBy(0,250);")

It will work !!

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Hamza Anis Over a year ago

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Hamed Baziyad · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-12 08:17:15Z

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Please try this:

driver.execute_script("document.querySelector('div[role=dialog] ul').parentNode.scrollTop=1e100")

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Sanyam Gupta · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-22 20:27:17Z

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from selenium import webdriver

t=10
while t:

#if you want to scroll to the end of the page,use this

driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight);")
    sleep(3)


#if you want to scroll down upto some level use this, here i used "1000" you may vary 
#it according to your use

driver.execute_script("scrollBy(0,+1000);")
    sleep(3)


#if you want to scroll some level up, use this,again i used here "-500" you may vary 
#according to your use 

driver.execute_script("scrollBy(0,-500);")
sleep(3)
t=t-1       # it`s a part of the loop

This will surely help you :)

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Mohammed SALEM · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-07 20:53:08Z

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You can use document.body.scrollTop: a javascript variable which contains the value by what the page had been scrolled down before that. like this : driver.execute_script("scrollBy(0,-document.body.scrollTop)")

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