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Selenium headless: How to bypass Cloudflare detection using Selenium

December 17, 2023 by Tarik

Using the latest Google Chrome v96.0 if you retrive the useragent For the google-chrome browser the following user-agent is in use: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36 Where as for google-chrome-headless browser the following user-agent is in use: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/96.0.4664.110 … Read more

Failed to connect to binary FirefoxBinary with Selenium in Maven

December 16, 2023 by Tarik

When I encounter this error it’s usually one of two things. The Selenium version does not support the browser version Double check the Selenium/browser versions are the same when ran from Eclipse vs Maven. Double check Eclipse and Maven are configured to use the same Selenium version. This occurred for me when my browser auto … Read more

Is there a good IE-based Selenium IDE? [closed]

December 16, 2023 by Tarik

Selenium does not have an IDE for Internet Explorer (any version). I haven’t seen any under development either. You can check their boards/site for updates but I their primary focus is FireFox for the IDE. Selenium can run tests in Internet Explorer (including IE6) using the SeleniumRC. You can record tests with the IDE in … Read more

Python with selenium: unable to locate element which really exist

December 15, 2023 by Tarik

The problem is that your input tag is inside an iframe, you need to switch to it first: frame = driver.find_element_by_xpath(‘//frame[@name=”main”]’) driver.switch_to.frame(frame) pass1 = driver.find_element_by_id(“PASSFIELD1”)

Selenium – MoveTargetOutOfBoundsException with Firefox

December 14, 2023 by Tarik

I think the correct answer here got lucky that the element they were looking for happened to be at the bottom of the page and didn’t really explain why this occurs in Firefox commonly. Browsers other than Firefox treat Webdrivers move_to_element action as scroll to part of page with element then hover over it. Firefox … Read more

What is the Page Object Pattern in Selenium WebDriver? [closed]

December 13, 2023 by Tarik

The documentation has already covered this. If you have any specific questions, feel free to edit your main post. Official: Page Objects and PageFactory on Selenuim Wiki. Page Object Design Pattern on Selenium official site. Unofficial: Do a Google search, you will get a lot info on this. Page Object Pattern Page Objects in Selenium … Read more

what’s the relationship between Selenium RC and WebDriver?

December 13, 2023 by Tarik

You should probably start your research here (though you may have already gone over this): http://seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.html I’ll assume you’re contrasting Selenium-RC to WebDriver, Selenium-IDE really isn’t in the same ballpark. Selenium uses JavaScript to automate web pages. This lets it interact very tightly with web content, and was one of the first automation tools to … Read more

How I can check whether a page is loaded completely or not in web driver?

December 13, 2023 by Tarik

Selenium does it for you. Or at least it tries its best. Sometimes it falls short, and you must help it a little bit. The usual solution is Implicit Wait which solves most of the problems. If you really know what you’re doing, and why you’re doing it, you could try to write a generic … Read more

unable to call firefox from selenium in python on AWS machine

December 12, 2023 by Tarik

How to send ESC key to close pop up window using Python and Selenium?

December 12, 2023 by Tarik

You don’t need to send keys to the element, you need to press them globally (to browser). You can do it via Actions. from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys webdriver.ActionChains(driver).send_keys(Keys.ESCAPE).perform() You can see more info in Webdriver API – 7.2 Action Chains doc