How to verify an XPath expression in Chrome Developers tool or Firefox’s Firebug?

Chrome This can be achieved by three different approaches (see my blog article here for more details): Search in Elements panel like below Execute $x() and $$() in Console panel, as shown in Lawrence’s answer Third party extensions (not really necessary in most of the cases, could be an overkill) Here is how you search … Read more

Scroll Element into View with Selenium

Have tried many things with respect to scroll, but the below code has provided better results. This will scroll until the element is in view: WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id(“id_of_element”)); ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript(“arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);”, element); Thread.sleep(500); //do anything you want with the element

MacOS Catalina(v 10.15.3): Error: “chromedriver” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. Unable to launch the chrome browser

I found the work around as below Open terminal Navigate to path where your chromedriver file is located Execute any one of the below commands Command1: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <name-of-executable> Example /usr/local/Caskroom/chromedriver $ xattr -d com.apple.quarantine chromedriver (or) Command2: spctl –add –label ‘Approved’ <name-of-executable> Source: https://docwhat.org/upgrading-to-catalina Note: This will work only with the file(s) where … Read more

Wait until page is loaded with Selenium WebDriver for Python

The webdriver will wait for a page to load by default via .get() method. As you may be looking for some specific element as @user227215 said, you should use WebDriverWait to wait for an element located in your page: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC from selenium.webdriver.common.by … Read more

WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn’t exist while trying to initiate Chrome Browser

Thumb rule A common cause for Chrome to crash during startup is running Chrome as root user (administrator) on Linux. While it is possible to work around this issue by passing –no-sandbox flag when creating your WebDriver session, such a configuration is unsupported and highly discouraged. You need to configure your environment to run Chrome … Read more

How to select a drop-down menu value with Selenium using Python?

Selenium provides a convenient Select class to work with select -> option constructs: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.get(‘url’) select = Select(driver.find_element_by_id(‘fruits01’)) # select by visible text select.select_by_visible_text(‘Banana’) # select by value select.select_by_value(‘1′) See also: What is the correct way to select an using Selenium’s Python WebDriver?

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