How does reCAPTCHA 3 know I’m using Selenium/chromedriver?

reCaptcha Websites can easily detect the network traffic and identify your program as a BOT. Google have already released 5(five) reCAPTCHA to choose from when creating a new site. While four of them are active and reCAPTCHA v1 being shutdown. reCAPTCHA versions and types reCAPTCHA v3 (verify requests with a score): reCAPTCHA v3 allows you … Read more

Which ChromeDriver version is compatible with which Chrome Browser version?

After 2.46, the ChromeDriver major version matches Chrome chromedriver chrome 76.0.3809.68 76 75.0.3770.140 75 74.0.3729.6 74 73.0.3683.68 73 It seems compatibility is only guaranteed within that revision. If you need to run chromedriver across multiple versions of chrome for some reason, well, plug the latest version number of chrome you’re using into the Chromedriver version … Read more

Checking HTTP Status Code in Selenium

This might not be the best use of Selenium for this type of test. There is unnecessary need to load a browser when you could do and have a faster running test [Test] [ExpectedException(typeof(WebException), UserMessage = “The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found”)] public void ShouldThrowA404() { HttpWebRequest task; //For Calling the page … Read more

Cucumber and Capybara, clicking a non-link or button element

You can click on an element via Capybara::Element.click. I add the following for this in my web_steps.rb to click on divs. When /^(?:|I )click within “([^”]*)”$/ do |selector| find(selector).click end There is also Element.trigger(‘mouseover’) which appears to enable hover albeit not working with Selenium. It is also very likely you will need to decorate your … Read more

How can I select checkboxes using the Selenium Java WebDriver?

Selecting a checkbox is similar to clicking a button. driver.findElement(By.id(“idOfTheElement”)).click(); will do. However, you can also see whether the checkbox is already checked. The following snippet checks whether the checkbox is selected or not. If it is not selected, then it selects. if ( !driver.findElement(By.id(“idOfTheElement”)).isSelected() ) { driver.findElement(By.id(“idOfTheElement”)).click(); }