“Failed to decode response from marionette” message in Python/Firefox headless scraping script

For anyone else experiencing this issue when running selenium webdriver in a Docker container, increasing the container size to 2gb fixes this issue. I guess this affects physical machines too if the OP fixed their issue by upgrading their server RAM to 2Gb, but could be coincidence.

how does selenium webdriver upload files to the browser?

Nice question buddy…they have written a HTTP proxy to solve the Javascript secuirty restrictions. Using this proxy made it possible to side-step many of the constraints of the “same host origin” policy, where a browser won’t allow Javascript to make calls to anything other than the server from which the current page has been served. … Read more

Selenium – Click at certain position

This should do it! Namely you need to use action chains from webdriver. Once you have an instance of that, you simply register a bunch of actions and then call perform() to perform them. from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.get(“http://www.google.com”) el=driver.find_elements_by_xpath(“//button[contains(string(), ‘Lucky’)]”)[0] action = webdriver.common.action_chains.ActionChains(driver) action.move_to_element_with_offset(el, 5, 5) action.click() action.perform() This will move … Read more

How to properly stop phantomjs execution

As of July 2016, driver.close() and driver.quit() weren’t sufficient for me. That killed the node process but not the phantomjs child process it spawned. Following the discussion on this GitHub issue, the single solution that worked for me was to run: import signal driver.service.process.send_signal(signal.SIGTERM) # kill the specific phantomjs child proc driver.quit() # quit the … Read more

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