I am automating some QA processes and I have some doubts along the way that do not allow me to move forward.
I have the following problems:
I need that when I open the Chromewebdriver, it automatically chooses the tab I want from the devtools, being Elements, Console, Recorder, Sources, etc.
What I could do so far is, when the browser is running, that the DevTools is open, but in its main tab, that would be elements
Extract information from the values of an extension (Is this possible?) The extension appears in the DevTools.
To add a kind of alert that does not allow you to advance if you do not click.
Take a screenshot (I could do this, but only the web page appears, and I would need that it appears besides the web, the DevTools).
Related
I am trying to automate a process with Selenium, and am having troubles figuring out how to switch between open windows while the program is running.
After clicking on the button, it opens another website that has a separate url, which is unique each time it is opened. I need to switch Selenium from interacting with the original website to this new popup within the browser, caused by the original website. The new window shows that it is also controlled by Chromedriver with the bit at the top that says "Chrome is being controlled by automated test software." Additionally, the actual website opened will be the same, just the fine print after the '.com/' is different.
How would I go about doing this? Also, how would I switch back? (If this is even possible)
For example:
driver=webdriver.Chrome(service=s)
driver.get("https://originalwebsite.com/")
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, 'buttons-xpath').click()
# (popup opens up now)
# *switch to popup website here*
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, 'button-on-new-website-xpath').click()
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, 'second-button-on-new-website-xpath').click()
# *popup website closes*
# switch back to original website / window
Thanks!
I have tried to use driver.navigate in a variety of ways but generally have no clue what I am doing. Thanks again!
The comment from ALex Break led to the answer.
All I had to do was:
handles = driver.window_handles
driver.switch_to.window(handles[x])
#handles[x] is the index of the list handles that has the handle I want to switch
#to stored in it
I'm trying to use the Selenium module in python to generate a text list from one website, save it in a directory, and browse to that text list on another site to submit it.
I'm working on the script in two parts- 1. Get metadata and 2. Order data. I've successfully completed the script in part 1, except for the very last thing: Choosing to save the metadata file that was just generated. I left it alone to work on part 2, hoping I would stumble upon the answer, but I'm just reaching to same problem when the pop-up to choose file comes along.
In the documentation, I'm told that Selenium WebDriver has built-in support for handling popup dialog boxes and that after triggering a dialog box, if I call alert = driver.switch_to_alert() then I can "accept, dismiss, read its contents, or even type into a prompt."
However, it's not working. When I try alert.text('some text') or alert.send_keys(Keys.TAB), I keep getting the error NoAlertPresentException: Message: No alert is present and after adding the command to wait, I get the error TimeoutException: Message:
Are the popups I'm getting (screenshots attached) not recognized by Selenium? If so, how do I interact with them? It seems like using this to save and/or upload files is something that many people have to do, but I cannot find anything on Google. Specifically, I would like to choose 'Save File' then 'OK' for the first image and for the second I would like to browse to the file (i.e. enter the path into the file name field) and click 'Open.' I don't want to just change my Firefox settings to automatically save because this will eventually be run in a different environment, and that won't help solve my second problem.
Thanks!
EDIT:
I'm testing my script on windows but it will eventually be implemented on a linux cloud server. I thought I was going to have to switch to PhantomJS webdriver (which was probably going to make my problem worse) to do headless browsing but I found a way to keep firefox. I guess all this means is that I can't use AutoIT to fix my problem.
The popups you see are not regular popups that can be interacted with using switch_to. These popups are system dialogs and cannot be automated using selenium.
Usually people avoid having these dialogs shown in the first place by tweaking browser preferences, e.g.:
downloading file using selenium
Access to file download dialog in Firefox
How to download a file using Selenium's WebDriver?
For uploading, usually you can find the appropriate input element and send keys to it with a path to the file:
How to upload file ( picture ) with selenium, python
How to upload files into file inputs? (python-selenium docs)
Let me know if your case cannot be solved by using the answers in the links I've attached.
As for your first, "download file automatically" problem, you just need to set a correct content-type:
profile.set_preference('browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk', "application/xml,text/xml")
Second problem fix (upload part):
driver.find_element_by_name("input_product_list").send_keys(textpath)
driver.find_element_by_name('include_sr').click()
driver.find_element_by_id('submit').click()
Extremely simple implementation using AutoIT.
Below scripts and steps can hely you to click on 'Save>OK' on this window's pop-UP
Step 1: Download AutoIT package/tool here AutoIt You may select ZIP format (extract it)
Step 2: Open any text editor (say notepad) and copy below code and save with extension .au3
(e.g file.au3)
WinWait("[TITLE:Opening ; CLASS:MozillaDialogClass]","", 10)
If WinExists("[TITLE:Opening ; CLASS:MozillaDialogClass]") Then
WinActivate("[TITLE:Opening ; CLASS:MozillaDialogClass]")
Send("{DOWN}")
Sleep(20)
Send("{TAB}")
Sleep(20)
Send("{TAB}")
Sleep(20)
Send("{ENTER}")
EndIf
Step 3: From extracted zip (Step 1) look for folder named: Aut2Exe and open it
Step 4: Click Aut2exe_x64.exe if your OS is 64 bit otherwise click Aut2exe.exe
Step 5: Browse/Locate file created in Step2. (file saved as extension .a3)
AND Choose Destination (.exe/.a3x) and select .exe option (say file.exe)
AND then Click convert
Step 6: include this file.exe in your project folder and use it as per your requirement using below code (as it is in Eclipse):
driver.dwonload().click(); // it can be something else as per your flow
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:/*path_to_your_EXE_file(selected in step 6))*/file.exe");
Ok, so I want to control a IE Explorer with pywinauto. I would like to select text fields on the page and edit them. Is there a way to do this with pywinauto without clicking where the text field are? The pages will be the same every time, but not the data that is entered into them. The window may not be in the same place every time, so I couldn't do WrapperObject.Click(coords=fixed_pos). Sample code is preferred. Thanks!
Unfortunately no. You can control the window of IE, all the toolbars and buttons, address bar and search bar, etc. But not content of pages within.
For this task, you need other tools, such as Selenium http://seleniumhq.org/
As for pywinauto,I strongly recommend to use the utility SWAPY http://code.google.com/p/swapy/. I am the Author of SWAPY. With it you can easily determine whether it is possible to manage the a control with pywinauto or not.
I am web scraping with selenium and whenever i try to download i file the firefox download/save as file pops up however, even If i apply profile.set_preference('browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk', "application/csv"), it still doesnt work, I have tried everyt .csv related MIME but doesn't work, is it possible to either click save as radio button and then click ok on the dialog or disable it entirely.
you should do two things, first set these three preferences as follows (this is in Java but I guess you manage to translate that to python :-):
profile.setPreference("browser.download.dir", "c:/yourDownloadDir");
profile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2);
profile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/csv, text/csv");
secondly, you should make sure the download file has the desired mime type. To do that, you can use the web developer tools and inspect the download.
EDIT:
To find out the MIME type open Chrome, press Ctrl+Shift+I (Cmd+Alt+I on Mac OS) change to the 'Network' tab and click your download link. You should see something like this:
Just an additional answer that might help someone, as comments to the accepted answer put me on the right track (thanks!). Another MIME type of CSV you might be dealing with is application/x-csv - that was my case and once I looked it up in the Network tab of the browser, I became a happier man :)
In C#
FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();
options.SetPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2);
options.SetPreference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", false);
options.SetPreference("browser.download.dir", "c:\\temp");
options.SetPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "text/csv");
I have an issue when trying to test a web application with Selenium/Python. Basically I can't test elements of a pop-up window.
A scenario: I can test all elements for a page. But when I go to click on a button that opens up a small pop up box I can't test the elements on the popup. It's like the pop up isn't in focus or active.
I can test elements on the next page. For example click a button, brings me on to next page, and I can work with elements on the 'next' page. So it the problem seems to be popup specific.
I could post code but to be honest it might confuse at this stage. I may post code in a later post, thanks
There is a property called switch_to
Q: How do I handle pop up windows?
A: WebDriver offers the ability to cope with multiple windows. This is done by using the WebDriver.switch_to.window(knownName) method to switch to a window with a known name.
If the name is not known, you can use WebDriver.window_handles to obtain a list of known windows.
You may pass the handle to switch_to.window(handleName)
For example I used driverName.switchTo.window(driverName.getWindowHandle()) to get a hold of popups for which I didn't want to look for names.
Additional references:
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
For the Selenium RC API, you need to use the SelectWindow command to switch to the pop-up window. The window can be specified either by its name (as specified on the JavaScript window.open() function) or its title. To switch back to the main window, use SelectWindow(None).