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Some sample codes for using selenium in Python just for fun.

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Selenium Browser Helper

from selenium import webdriver

Then, you can access the classes like this:

• webdriver.Firefox
• webdriver.FirefoxProfile
• webdriver.Chrome
• webdriver.ChromeOptions
• webdriver.Ie
• webdriver.Opera
• webdriver.PhantomJS
• webdriver.Remote
• webdriver.DesiredCapabilities
• webdriver.ActionChains
• webdriver.TouchActions
• webdriver.Proxy

https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/api.html

Selenium Locating Elements Helper

There are various strategies to locate elements in a page. You can use the most appropriate one for your case.

Selenium provides the following methods to locate elements in a page:

• find_element_by_id
• find_element_by_name
• find_element_by_xpath
• find_element_by_link_text
• find_element_by_partial_link_text
• find_element_by_tag_name
• find_element_by_class_name
• find_element_by_css_selector

To find multiple elements (these methods will return a list):

• find_elements_by_name
• find_elements_by_xpath
• find_elements_by_link_text
• find_elements_by_partial_link_text
• find_elements_by_tag_name
• find_elements_by_class_name
• find_elements_by_css_selector

Apart from the public methods given above, there are two private methods which might be useful with locators in page objects. These are the two private methods: find_element and find_elements.

Example usage:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//button[text()="Some text"]')
driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, '//button')

These are the attributes available for By class:

ID = "id"
XPATH = "xpath"
LINK_TEXT = "link text"
PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT = "partial link text"
NAME = "name"
TAG_NAME = "tag name"
CLASS_NAME = "class name"
CSS_SELECTOR = "css selector"

Example using Selenium Locating Elements:

login_form = driver.find_element_by_id('loginForm')

heading1 = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('h1')

continue = driver.find_element_by_name('continue')
username = driver.find_element_by_name('username')
password = driver.find_element_by_name('password')

content = driver.find_element_by_class_name('content')

content = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('p.content')

continue_link = driver.find_element_by_link_text('Continue')
continue_link = driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text('Conti')

login_form = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/form[1]")
login_form = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[1]")
login_form = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[@id='loginForm']")

username = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[input/@name='username']")
username = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[@id='loginForm']/input[1]")
username = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='username']")

clear_button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='continue'][@type='button']")
clear_button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[@id='loginForm']/input[4]")

Selenium Getting Started

Simple Usage Selenium

If you have installed Selenium Python bindings, you can start using it from Python like this.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("pycon")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source
driver.close()

https://chromedriver.chromium.org/getting-started

https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/getting-started.html

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