Getting bytes of a webpage from selenium

Alanic · Sep 13, 2021

I am trying to scrape a webpage with a pdf.

With request, I used the following code to get the bytes and save it with open()

Code:

  pdf_response = requests.get(pdf_url)
    
    with open("sample.pdf", 'wb') as f:
        f.write(pdf_response.content)
        f.close

And it works just fine,

However on the below webpage I am using selenium but could not get the bytes from response object to use in the above code,

Code:

#This does not return a byte object as requests
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(base)

content = driver.page_source.encode('utf-8').strip()