How to stop a page loading from selenium in chrome?

In order to stop a page loading from selenium in chrome, you will need to set the pageLoadStrategy to none. You will also need to wait for the element to be present and call window.stop to stop the loading.

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By


capa = DesiredCapabilities.CHROME

capa["pageLoadStrategy"] = "none"


driver = webdriver.Chrome(desired_capabilities=capa)

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)


driver.get('http://xyz.com/')


wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#h-top-questions')))


driver.execute_script("window.stop();")