webdriver

How to resolve ElementNotInteractableException: Element is not visible in Selenium webdriver?

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ElementNotInteractableException ElementNotInteractableException is the W3C exception which is thrown to indicate that although an element is present on the HTML DOM, it is not in a state that can be interacted with. Reasons & Solutions : The reason for ElementNotInteractableException to occur can be numerous. Temporary Overlay of other WebElement over the WebElement of our … Read more

Set Chrome’s language using Selenium ChromeDriver

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You can do it by adding Chrome’s command line switches “–lang”. Basically, all you need is starting ChromeDriver with an ChromeOption argument –lang=es, see API for details. The following is a working example of C# code for how to start Chrome in Spanish using Selenium. ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions(); options.addArguments(“–lang=es”); ChromeDriver driver = new … Read more

Webdriver Screenshot in Python

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Use driver.save_screenshot(‘/path/to/file’) or driver.get_screenshot_as_file(‘/path/to/file’): import selenium.webdriver as webdriver import contextlib @contextlib.contextmanager def quitting(thing): yield thing thing.quit() with quitting(webdriver.Firefox()) as driver: driver.implicitly_wait(10) driver.get(‘http://www.google.com’) driver.get_screenshot_as_file(‘/tmp/google.png’) # driver.save_screenshot(‘/tmp/google.png’)

Protractor in STS IDE -> Could not find update-config.json

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It looks like you are either using directConnect or launching with a local driver provider (not having seleniumAddress or directConnect) in your configuration file. You need to run webdriver-manager update. Previously I had extra flags to not download standalone or gecko with webdriver-manager update –standalone false –gecko false. This is no longer the case if … Read more

Selenium WebDriver.get(url) does not open the URL

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It is a defect of Selenium. I have the same problem in Ubuntu 12.04 behind the proxy. Problem is in incorrect processing proxy exclusions. Default Ubuntu exclusions are located in no_proxy environment variable: no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8 But it seems that /8 mask doesn’t work for selenium. To workaround the problem it is enough to change no_proxy to … Read more

How to handle print dialog in Selenium?

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Unfortunately, WebDriver can’t handle these (or any other browser or OS dialog). Moreover, they tend to look differently across browsers / systems / language settings, so there’s probably no definite answer. You’ll need to detect and handle every possible case in order to make it work everywhere. Your options include: The Robot class, it allows … Read more

Is it possible to use Selenium WebDriver to drive PhantomJS?

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PhantomJS now includes the GhostDriver project. You are also suggested to use PhantomJS directly or with a convenience library such as CasperJS. CasperJS is specifically designed to make it easy to do sequential operations to web pages, perfect for many automation tasks. Disclaimer: I am the author of PhantomJS. Edit: As noted in Nick’s answer, … Read more

How to download an image using Selenium (any version)?

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I prefer doing something like this : 1. Get the SRC attribute of the image. 2. Use ImageIO.read to read the image onto a BufferedImage 3. Save the BufferedImage using ImageIO.write function For e.g. String src = imgElement.getAttribute(‘src’); BufferedImage bufferedImage = ImageIO.read(new URL(src)); File outputfile = new File(“saved.png”); ImageIO.write(bufferedImage, “png”, outputfile);