How to open new tab in Chrome with Selenium-chromeDriver in Python

Question

Is there anybody who used ChromeDriver to open new tabs in Chrome?

With this code I can open my index.html in Chrome:

driver = webdriver.Chrome("/usr/bin/chromedriver")
driver.get("localhost:3000")

And then I want to open localhost:3000/cloudPeer.html in a new tab:

driver.find_element_by_tag_name("body").send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 't')
driver.get("localhost:3000/cloudPeer.html")

This works well in Firefox, but in Chrome, it can't open a new tab, it just refresh the first page, and open the new page, the first page is now lost.
I want to open these two pages at the same time and do some communication tests between them.

I know how it works in Java. Can you implement the same login in python and see that works? Please refer stackoverflow.com/questions/34829329/…. Also is it t (in single quote) in python? In java, it is t in (double quote) to open a tab. — Abdul Hameed
– Abdul Hameed, Commented Feb 4, 2016 at 21:11
Please do not open multiple tabs. Use multiple webdriver instances and open another window. It is much more stable. — Nathan Merrill
– Nathan Merrill, Commented Feb 4, 2016 at 22:11

sidpat · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-06 04:26:58Z

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This works for chrome-

driver.execute_script("window.open('https://www.google.com');")

answered Feb 6, 2016 at 4:26

sidpat

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3 Comments

Nouman Over a year ago

How to switch tabs?

Dirk Over a year ago

Use driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[-1]) to switch to the most recently opened tab.

johnrao07 Over a year ago

How to get the page_source ?

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