Selenium open the webpage forcing the url lowercase

Question

i'm runnig this code.

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome("chromedriver.exe")
driver.implicitly_wait(1)
driver.get("https://www.vivaticket.com/it/search?categoryId=10&provinceCode=BO")

The open page is all lowercase "https://www.vivaticket.com/it/search?categoryid=10&provincecode=bo" and finds no results.

Do you have an idea how to deal with it? Thx for help

If you know that the provinceCode has to be uppercase (as is apparently the situation) then where is the problem? — DarkKnight, Feb 04 '23 at 07:24
I can't manually change the provinceCode on the openpage every time :) — frquestions, Feb 04 '23 at 07:38

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 04 '23 at 10:55

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I think you can bypass this using url-encoding:

def encode(string):
    return "".join("%{0:0>2}".format(format(ord(char), "x")) for char in string)

province = "BO"
url = "https://www.vivaticket.com/it/search?categoryid=10&provincecode="+encode(province)

driver.get(url)

In your case, %42%4F stands for BO.

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answered Feb 04 '23 at 10:55

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Great anticipation +1 – undetected Selenium Feb 04 '23 at 12:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 05 '23 at 17:32

This is the site doing that on first browse for some reason. What I found that works is to just navigate twice.

String url = "https://www.vivaticket.com/it/search?categoryId=10&provinceCode=BO";
driver.get(url);
driver.get(url);
// proceed with your script

The second navigation keeps the proper capitalization.

Selenium open the webpage forcing the url lowercase

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