I'm trying to send an automated email to Gmail. Yes, I know that it has its own Python library for that, however, as it is a business email, there is no way to get that automatic password that is generated by Gmail.
So I'm manually doing each step with Selenium.
At a certain point in the message, I must change the text color to red and then to black again. However, before pressing the color button, I must press another button first to open the color options:
button I mentioned
The button highlighted in red is where I'm having problems, because it has a div with the same class as others. Then I noticed that one thing I could use to differentiate would be the backgroud-image, but I don't know if I would be able to find the element by the class and background-image.
It is possible? If not, what other way can I click on this button, other than through XPATH, as the program has to run on other computers as well, so preferably through CSS_SELECTOR.
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PS: All id's are dynamically generated, so there's no way to use them.
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I should start by saying that I'm not a web developer but I have been using Selenium with Python for a few weeks and think I've gotten the basics down.
What I have is a page with a weekly calendar on it. Image as follows:
What happens is that you can click on any of the coloured boxes which will bring up a register for a class. It features items that you can click on which bring up new information. The problem I have is that I can't click on the items - or, rather, I don't know how to automate the click. I have automated clicking with Selenium before in other situations.
That looks as follows:
As you can see, the calendar still appears in the background. That is to say, the item we click on doesn't take us to a new page but, I suppose, runs some kind of method which shows the register and populates it with data.
My problem is this: I want to automate the process so that I can click on each of these items then scrape the information. In order to do that I need to be able to automate the clicking for each of the items.
So what have I done? When I've done this before, I've searched through the web html for the relevant part and then grabbed the xPath to the element I needed. But here I can't do that. Why not? Well, firstly, I just can't find that element!
Take a look at this close up of the first column:
It's divided into columns, but then I'd expect the clickable area to be an element within that. As you can see, it's not. Furthermore, the clickable area is just the coloured box itself, but if you look closely you can see the element goes outside of that area. I have gone very close with my mouse cursor to see exactly what's clickable, and it definitely is just the coloured box.
So I've not been able to get the element at all.
I thought I might be able to just find out where we went after I clicked the button, but when I got the link address, it just said it was the same page with no differences.
I appreciate I'm asking quite a broad question here, but the problem is that I don't really know where to start. If someone could give me at least that much, I would be grateful. Like if I could just click on each of these one at a time... I've found where the populated data is so I could grab that without a problem.
Well, here's to hoping.
Edit: I should add that there are some JavaScript items (tag type script, type='text/javascript'). I presume that the answer is in there somewhere, but there is a lot of Javascript and I'm not adept at reading it. It's hard for me to tell what script does what. If I could at least figure out what script runs when I click the item then I think I'd be onto something, but I have no idea. Even that would help me.
I had encountered similar problem when scraping for Instagram followers in mobile view where it was floating box when showing the accounts followers name. The approach I took was identifying the name of floating dialog box and clicking the element in it. It might different in your case of html.
Trying looking at this link. Selenium Scroll inside of popup div
Hard to say without the HTML. Maybe try Katalon Recorder (chrome extension) and see if that can detect the xpath for you? It might also be you have to use some kind of javascript to invoke the method for the element
As the title says, how can I .click() a button using Selenium, when the button gets "disabled" after using the method clear or send_keys?
Before:
That's the page status when I open it's url... but then right after I run my code to find the textbox and replace it's value, the element gets disabled (maybe by some sort of JS) right after I clear it's content or write something to it using send_keys.
After:
Code:
txt_value = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#id="txtValor4"]')
txt_value.clear() #this disables the button
txt_value.send_keys(str(123,45)) #this also disables the button
My question is:
How can I bypass this website protection and press the Continuar button?
I thought about disabling JS, but the whole website relies on it to produces the requires documents.. wrong alternative.
So I thought about using the button properties to simulate the pressing of the button... just don't know if it's possible, or how I could do this.
Another option was blocking only the JS that disables the button maybe mapping where the command comes from using the inspect element and network tools...
So is there any way to achieve this?
ps.: I can't give the URL because it requires my login data.
Ok, so you can't directly do this through normal means. Selenium WebDriver is made to simulate real use of a browser. It may be possible however to use the execute_script function. (Java Selenium has a built in JavascriptExecutor class, I assume this is python's version.) The execute_script function allows Selenium to perform tasks that a human interacting with a browser can't do.
driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('buttonid').click()")
Or something along those lines should work. Hope that helps you out.
If you don't get any solution with selenium and javascript, you can use Sikuli concept. To click that element, take the image of the 'Continuar' button and save it in resources folder.
String elementImg=Path of the Image;
screen.click(elementImg);
I could bypass this using driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('txtValor4').value = 123.45"), to pass the values into the textbox, so the button didn't got disabled and I could press the Continue button.
Even bypassing this, the result wasn't the expected! The value that I entered was supposed to be corrected by some sort of interest. But bypassing this, the value isn't corrected.
Today the user that asked the program told me that everytime I change the value inside this textbox, I must press the Calculate button.
So, instead of inefficiently bypassing this disable method, I could solve my problem using:
b = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#id="txtValor4"]')
b.clear()
b.send_keys('123.45')
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#id="btnCalcular4"]').click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#id="btnContinuar4"]').click()
This way the tax value is corrected by interest and the website generate the .pdf with the exact value that I was expecting.
Many thanks for everyone that put some time and effort trying to help me.
I am using python code such as below to click an element within an iframe on an angularjs page.
browser = webdriver.Ie()
browser.switch_to.frame('name')
browser.find_element_by_id('value').click()
After using click() I am unable to manually highlight text that appears on the page. Why might this happen? How can I restore the ability to highlight text with the mouse?
I have tried switching back to default content, but this makes no difference. Any ideas?
Other strange effects after using click(): Links and buttons don't work while using the mouse manually unless double-clicked. These would normally require single click. It is as if there is an invisible overlay blocking text selection or clicking links. Radio buttons and menus still work.
Edit: The site uses silverlight and I am wondering if this is related to the problem that results from using click().
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 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).