selenium

How to make Firefox headless programmatically in Selenium with Python?

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To invoke Firefox Browser headlessly, you can set the headless property through Options() class as follows: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options options = Options() options.headless = True driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options, executable_path=r’C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\geckodriver.exe’) driver.get(“http://google.com/”) print (“Headless Firefox Initialized”) driver.quit() There’s another way to accomplish headless mode. If you need to disable or enable the … Read more

How to save and load cookies using Python + Selenium WebDriver

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You can save the current cookies as a Python object using pickle. For example: import pickle import selenium.webdriver driver = selenium.webdriver.Firefox() driver.get(“http://www.google.com”) pickle.dump( driver.get_cookies() , open(“cookies.pkl”,”wb”)) And later to add them back: import pickle import selenium.webdriver driver = selenium.webdriver.Firefox() driver.get(“http://www.google.com”) cookies = pickle.load(open(“cookies.pkl”, “rb”)) for cookie in cookies: driver.add_cookie(cookie)

Test if element is present using Selenium WebDriver?

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Use findElements instead of findElement. findElements will return an empty list if no matching elements are found instead of an exception. To check that an element is present, you could try this Boolean isPresent = driver.findElements(By.yourLocator).size() > 0 This will return true if at least one element is found and false if it does not … Read more

Selenium C# WebDriver: Wait until element is present

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Using the solution provided by Mike Kwan may have an impact in overall testing performance, since the implicit wait will be used in all FindElement calls. Many times you’ll want the FindElement to fail right away when an element is not present (you’re testing for a malformed page, missing elements, etc.). With the implicit wait … Read more

Can Selenium WebDriver open browser windows silently in the background?

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If you are using Selenium web driver with Python, you can use PyVirtualDisplay, a Python wrapper for Xvfb and Xephyr. PyVirtualDisplay needs Xvfb as a dependency. On Ubuntu, first install Xvfb: sudo apt-get install xvfb Then install PyVirtualDisplay from PyPI: pip install pyvirtualdisplay Sample Selenium script in Python in a headless mode with PyVirtualDisplay: #!/usr/bin/env … Read more

How can I scroll a web page using selenium webdriver in python?

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You can use driver.execute_script(“window.scrollTo(0, Y)”) where Y is the height (on a fullhd monitor it’s 1080). (Thanks to @lukeis) You can also use driver.execute_script(“window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);”) to scroll to the bottom of the page. If you want to scroll to a page with infinite loading, like social network ones, facebook etc. (thanks to @Cuong Tran) SCROLL_PAUSE_TIME … Read more

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