How can I get control of a tab using pywinauto? I can easily see the "Compras/Vendas" using print_control_identifiers(), but when I try to click it I'm receiving the error below
The error:
The tab I'm trying to select:
Edit:
I learned a few things about TabControl reading the documentation, it works very well in some apps, but not in the one I'm trying to automate. My code now:
my code working
my code not working
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I am trying to write a program that goes to the following site and downloads the Excel file that automatically downloads when clicking the XLS button on the bottom of the page. To be honest, I am quite new to programming.
Site: https://echa.europa.eu/assessment-regulatory-needs
At first I tried using Selenium to let the program click itself through the browser and really click on the button. However, I think the website detects the usage of automated software and I cannot bypass the disclaimer that appears when opening the website.
Then I read some answers on the same topic where it is possible by using the requests module. However, I could not get it to work.
One thing I think I understood from this anwer was that you need to get the site/server where the data is requested from by inspecting the button with F12 in the browser. I tried this, and thought I had it, however I cannot get the code to function. I learnt from this answer that you need to give the referer as well, bu I think the referer from this file ist only partially written out, as it is "https://echa.europa.eu/assessment-regulatory-needs".
This answer explained the network process more in detail, howver I am not able to recreate it. Also, to be honest i do not fully understand what the API is and how to search for it.
I also found this answer, but it does not work for me either.
So I am asking for help on this, as I think that my HTML, Java, Website, Python knowledge is too tiny to see what I have to change to be able to download the excel file.
I'm a recent self-learner of Python, so please be gentle!
I recently went through the 'Automate the boring stuff with Python' course on Udemy, and now trying to implement my own project.
I have a website that I need to access fairly regularly for work and looking to automate my navigation using Selenium.
I've got the navigation to and log-in down, that works (using find_element_by...) no problem.
I then got stuck quite quickly when trying to select sub-pages from drop down menus, no matter what I tried I recieved errors saying the object / id / css selector etc and got the unable to locate element exception. There is a submenu on the left side of the website, and I've tried using the visible text option to select it, but that's not worked either.
The website is built / supplied by (?) Oracle - is that causing me the issue?
A bit disheartneing that I got stuck so soon!
Thanks in advance
Rich
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");
I have searched the forums and found some information regarding this, but not quite with the problem I'm facing. I am automating the uploading of files to a website. Unfortunately, the website uses a counter for the id of the "browse" button. Using Selenium and Firebug, I was able to find another way to identify the button. I have exported the script into python to add variables so I can automate. However, the browse button opens a windows popup to select the file. The script is started out like this...
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#type=\"file\"]").click()
driver.find_element_by_id("upfile_1405369589849").clear()
driver.find_element_by_id("upfile_1405369589849").send_keys("path\\file")
driver.find_element_by_id("upload_button").click()
In this, the upload button is clicked, the popup appears, and it sits there mocking me. I tried using the xpath in place of the id, but that didn't work. I tried the following, too...
driver.findElement(By.id()).send_keys("path\\file")
and tried this...
driver.find_element_by_id("upfile_*").send_keys("path\\file")
I cant seem to get the window to respond, other than it's mocking glare. Any help to squelch this would be very appreciated.
It can´t be done. One workaround is to get the development team to modify the AUT for you. Add a javascipt function into the page that will allow you to pass the filename to the handler without having to click the browse button.
If you can´t do that, I would suggest that you look into Sikuli that will allow you to interact with the windows prompt using pattern recognition (screenshots) of what you want to interact with.
I'm trying to get myself a decent RSS reader in python. It's supposed to be a pure console application.
My question is-as mentioned in the title-how to open a link within this console. So e.g theres a recent feed entry and i want to click on it and it should open the linked website in a browser.
Is this possible and if yes I would be glad if you could help me
Since you're using Windows, you can use Windows console functions to detect clicks on the console, translate the click positions (which will already be character positions) to links via hit-testing, and hook them up to e.g. webbrowser.open to open a link.
Input handling for console applications is described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682079%28v=vs.85%29.aspx.