Check for JS Runtime First verify you aren’t executing / eval()ing a lot of javascript. That can cause a timeout. Check Version Compatibility First, verify your versions of: Selenium JDK ChromeDriver Chrome are all compatible. Good luck doing this because there is no single place that documents it, AND selenium software isn’t smart enough to … Read more
The biggest hurdle in testing ExtJS with Selenium is that ExtJS doesn’t render standard HTML elements and the Selenium IDE will naively (and rightfully) generate commands targeted at elements that just act as decor — superfluous elements that help ExtJS with the whole desktop-look-and-feel. Here are a few tips and tricks that I’ve gathered while … Read more
There are a few options: You could use Selenium Grid so that the browser is opened on a completely different machine (or virtual machine) that you can then connect to via VNC or Remote Desktop Connection if you wanted to see the browser. Also, another option: if you run a Jenkins foreground process on that … Read more
There is no way in Selenium to read the request or response headers. You could do it by instructing your browser to connect through a proxy that records this kind of information. Setting the User Agent in Firefox The usual way to change the user agent for Firefox is to set the variable “general.useragent.override” in … Read more
First the update 1 execute_cdp_cmd(): With the availability of execute_cdp_cmd(cmd, cmd_args) command now you can easily execute google-chrome-devtools commands using Selenium. Using this feature you can modify the navigator.webdriver easily to prevent Selenium from getting detected. Preventing Detection 2 To prevent Selenium driven WebDriver getting detected a niche approach would include either / all of … Read more
You can switch between windows as below: // Store the current window handle String winHandleBefore = driver.getWindowHandle(); // Perform the click operation that opens new window // Switch to new window opened for(String winHandle : driver.getWindowHandles()){ driver.switchTo().window(winHandle); } // Perform the actions on new window // Close the new window, if that window no more … Read more
Use the pause command and enter the number of milliseconds in the Target field. Set speed to fastest (Actions –> Fastest), otherwise it won’t work.
You can use PyVirtualDisplay (a Python wrapper for Xvfb) to run headless WebDriver tests. #!/usr/bin/env python from pyvirtualdisplay import Display from selenium import webdriver display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600)) display.start() # now Firefox will run in a virtual display. # you will not see the browser. browser = webdriver.Firefox() browser.get(‘http://www.google.com’) print browser.title browser.quit() display.stop() more … Read more
Docs: https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/navigating.html For versions 4.3.0 (released in June 2022) and later, calls to find_element_by_* and find_elements_by_* were removed from Selenium. You need to use the new API: from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By driver = webdriver.Firefox(…) # Or Chrome(), or Ie(), or Opera() # To catch <input type=”text” id=”passwd” /> password = driver.find_element(By.ID, “passwd”) # To catch … Read more
Take a look at the section about filling in forms using webdriver in the selenium documentation and the javadoc for the Select class. To select an option based on the label: Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath(“//path_to_drop_down”))); select.deselectAll(); select.selectByVisibleText(“Value1”); To get the first selected value: WebElement option = select.getFirstSelectedOption()