How can I make the Chrome window selenium webdriver opens appear on the foreground? Basically, I want to do the opposit of "headless".
nav = webdriver.Chrome()
I would like this to generate a window on the foreground.
First you need to import the required methods, classes from selenium
from selenium import webdriver
and then create a drive object
driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver') #provide the chrome driver location
After running this line of code, a chrome window will open.
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The goal is a locked-in end system.
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.fullscreen_window()
driver.get("https://google.com/")
This opens a fullscreen window but still allows users to enter URL's by hovering the mouse near the top of the screen. Is there a way to permanently hide the URL bar? Alternatively, is there a way to disable entering a URL?
Kiosk mode will disable all GUI elements.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
option = Options()
option.add_argument("--kiosk")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=option)
driver.get("https://google.com/")
When I run chrome driver from selenium the browser opens in minimized windows. but I want it to open by default as maximized
You can either use
driver.maximize_window() or
chrome_options.add_argument("--start-maximized") which will maximize the browser when ever it opens.
The following code was taken from this link. https://pythonbasics.org/selenium-maximize/
from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.maximize_window()
time.sleep(5)
driver.get("https://www.python.org")
This is one of the methods to do so.
I am using 3rd party software to create a fancy application GUI with several buttons.
Each buttons will execute different .py file/.exe file. For instance:-
btnYahoo = execute yahoo.py/yahoo.exe
btnGoogle = execute google.py/google.exe
So inside both py scripts is using chromedriver to launch Chrome Browser and redirect to specific URLs
google.py
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
yahoo.py
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("https://malaysia.yahoo.com/?p=us")
So if I execute both scripts above, it will launch 2 chrome browser.
Therefore, my concern is how can I check is webdriver.Chrome is running?
If so, then assign the webdriver.Chrome to a variable, so that I can open new tab and do further automate script progress.
For example of expected result:
Execute google.py - A new chrome browser is open and redirect to
www.google.com
Execute yahoo.py - If webdriver.Chrome is executed/existed, then assign the browser to driver variable. Else launch new browser
Thanks for advance information.
I was able to do so by checking if driver.session_id was None.
I was recently experimenting with Selenium in Python and noticed that every time I created a new webdriver object and used webdriver.get(website), the webdriver window would open first (black window that sort of looks like the terminal) and then the actual tab with the website would open. Is there anyway to run the webdriver in the background so only the tab opens without the webdriver window opening?
EDIT: Currently using the Chrome webdriver.
to make chrome run in background you can add headless mode option
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
driver.get('https://www.google.com')
print(driver.title)
driver.close()
I am using Python Selenium to open a Firefox browser and go to a URL. The function I am using to do this is...
def openurl_function():
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('http://www.example.com')
When I run the function it always opens a new instance of FireFox, is there a way to have it to just open using the same browser instance?
Currently if I run the function 10 times then I get 10 FireFox browsers open.
Just keep reusing the same driver. You are creating a new browser, every time you call
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
Also, because you never quit() on your driver, you will probably have all the browsers stay open as orphans because you deleted the handle to them when you created a new browser.