I am a complete beginner to selenium and I wrote my first program just to connect to Google.
from selenium import webdriver
path = "C:\\Users\\Home\\Documents\\Python37-32\\Scripts\\Code\\msedgedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Edge(path)
driver.get("https://google.com")
print(driver.title)"
My web driver version is 88.0.705.50 (Official build) (64-bit)
I use selenium 3 and I am getting this error while running the code. Also it is opening "data:," for a few seconds then opening Google. Lastly the browser doesn't stay open.
Declare path on a separate line from the import statement
Use raw string in path or double escapes
Code:
from selenium import webdriver
path = r"C:\Users\Home\Documents\Python37-32\Scripts\Code\msedgedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Edge(path)
driver.get("https://google.com")
print(driver.title)
What error do you get? It's the default behavior that the browser opens with data:,, then it will direct to the website you want. The browser doesn't stay opened may because the error breaks it.
You can refer to the following steps to automate Edge in python selenium:
Make sure the WebDriver version is the same as the Edge version.
Install the MS Edge Selenium tools using command below:
pip install msedge-selenium-tools selenium==3.141
Sample code:
from msedge.selenium_tools import Edge, EdgeOptions
options = EdgeOptions()
options.use_chromium = True
driver = Edge(executable_path = r"C:\Users\Home\Documents\Python37-32\Scripts\Code\msedgedriver.exe", options = options)
driver.get("https://google.com")
print(driver.title)
Related
I am able to change the download directory for Chrome using Python Selenium as follows:
DownloadPath = (f'C:\\Users\\{EmplyID}\\Desktop\\General Orders\\{Newfolder}')
chromeOptions = Options()
chromeOptions.add_experimental_option("prefs", {"download.default_directory": DownloadPath})
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=f'C:\\Users\\{EmplyID}\\Desktop\\General
Orders\\Bidman To Enovia\\chromedriver.exe',options=chromeOptions)
But I am unable to do the same for edge web driver. It would be great if anyone can help me with the code.
Thanks in advance. :)
1. Download the correct version of Edge WebDriver from [here][1]. Make
sure that the Edge WebDriver version is the same as the Edge browser
version.
[1]: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/
2. Install the MS Edge Selenium tools using command below:
`pip install msedge-selenium-tools selenium==version e.eg 3.141.4`
3. Run the following sample python code to test:
from msedge.selenium_tools import Edge, EdgeOptions
options = EdgeOptions()
options.use_chromium = True
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", {"download.default_directory": r"D:\Downloads"})
driver = Edge(executable_path=r"D:\webdriver\msedgedriver.exe", options=options)
driver.get("https://www.seleniumhq.org/download/");
m = driver.find_element_by_link_text("32 bit Windows IE")
m.click()
**Note**: Change the paths in the code to your owns.
You can use the code below to change download directory for Edge. I use Selenium version 4.1.5. I suggest you also use Selenium 4:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.edge.service import Service
ser = Service("E:\\webdriver\\msedgedriver.exe")
edge_options = webdriver.EdgeOptions()
edge_options.use_chromium = True
download_path = r'C:\mydownloadpath\Download'
edge_options.add_experimental_option('prefs', {
"download.default_directory": download_path
})
driver = webdriver.Edge(service = ser,options = edge_options )
driver.get('http://www.somesite.com')
Note: Please change the paths in the code to your owns.
#TLDR I want to use brave browser with selenium written in python but can't find any current solutions that work.
This code works
from selenium import webdriver
option = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
option.binary_location = r'C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-
Browser\Application\brave.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe',
options=option)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
driver.quit()
but executable_path is deprecated:
C:\Users\USER\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\sol2.py:5:
DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe', options=option)
Found this on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMzmVFA-Gps
# import statements
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
# Declare variables and setup services
driverService = Service('C:/webdrivers/chromedriver.exe')
# 1. Passes the chromedriver path to the service object
# 2. stores the service object in the s variable
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=driverService)
# 1. Passes service object driverSerice into the webdriver.Chrome
# 2. Stores object in driver variable
# Body (actually doing stuff)
driver.maximize_window() # maximizes the browser window
driver.get("https://www.google.com") # navigates to google.com
myPageTitle = driver.title
# gets the title of the web page stores in myPageTitle
print(myPageTitle) # prints myPageTitle to Console
assert "Google" in myPageTitle
# checks myPageTitle to ensure it contains Google
# clean up
driver.quit() # closes the browser
When I run this code I get:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary
This code works as long as you allow Google Chrome onto your PC. I don't want Chrome on my PC.
The problem is that I can't figure out how to get selenium to use brave instead of Chrome.
As of this writing I am using the following:
Windows 11 Home
Selenium v4.0.0
Python v3.10
ChromeDriver 95.0.4638.69
Brave Browser Version 1.31.91 Chromium: 95.0.4638.69 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Can some one please explain how to make this work with the current (read nondeprecated) code on brave browser? Thanks for your time.
To initiate a brave browsing context you need to:
Use the binary_location attribute to point to the brave binary location.
Use the chromedriver executable to initiate the brave browser.
Code block:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
option = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
option.binary_location = r'C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe'
driverService = Service('C:/Users/.../chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=driverService, options=option)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
Note: The DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated is a harmless warning message which doesn't affects your test execution and you can still ignore it.
References
You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:
How to use Brave web browser with python, selenium and chromedriver?
How to initiate Brave browser using Selenium and Python on Windows
you have to set your path to brave binary.
options.setBinary("Path to brave.exe");
Go through this website:
https://mundrisoft.com/tech-bytes/how-to-execute-selenium-script-in-brave-browser/
How to open a URL without webbrowser using Python, but with an address of the application with which I want to open it.
There are three ways to do this
Case 1: You just need to open a page. and that is it,
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open("https://yoursite.com")
The above will open https://yoursite.com on your default browser
Case 2: You need to open, as well as do a task eg refresh
from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Edge("path to your edge driver")
driver.get("https://yoursite.com")
# The command below will refresh your webbrowser after 3 seconds of opening it
time.sleep(3)
driver.refresh()
If you want to use chrome... use driver = webdriver.Chrome("path to your chrome driver")
Case 3:You have already opened your webbrowser (via selenium) and you are in another program and you want to see it without opening it manually
from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Edge("path to your edge driver")
driver.get("https://yoursite.com")
time.sleep(10)
# this command stores your webbrowser window in a variable
main_page = driver.current_window_handle
# this command moves the webbrowser to the front
driver.switch_to.window(main_page)
Also you have to install a driver for your browser if you are using the selenium thing...
For edge go to https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/#:~:text=Microsoft%20Edge%20WebDriver%20for%20Microsoft%20Edge%20will%20work,find%20your%20correct%20build%20number%3A%20Launch%20Microsoft%20Edge. and choose your edge version...
And for chrome go to https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
You will also have to do pip install selenium in the terminal...
Hope this helps ;)
Try selenium, although you'll have to first download Chromedriver:
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com/")
body = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("body") body.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 't')
driver.close()
I am trying to use the vivaldi browser with Selenium. It is a chromium browser that runs very similar to chrome. I have Selenium working with Firefox (geckodriver), and Google Chrome(chromedriver), but I can't seem to find a way with Vivaldi. Any help would be appreciated.
If the vivaldi binary by default is located at C:\Users\levir\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe you can use the following solution:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.binary_location=r'C:\Users\levir\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe', options=options)
driver.get('http://google.com/')
For future reference:
to make Vivaldi work with selenium you need to make sure of three things :
The correct version of ChromeDriver
Set selenium's driver to use Vivaldi's binary via webdriver.ChromeOptions()
Make sure you're getting the correct url (don't forget "https://")
All of the above is explained step by step with screenshots in this blog post
The key executable_path will be deprecated in the upcoming releases of Selenium.
This post has the solution. I'm posting a copy of said solution with the path to Vivaldi, where the username is fetched by the script so you don't have to hard code it.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
import os
current_user = os.getlogin()
s = Service(rf"C:\Users\{current_user}\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=s)
driver.get("http://duckduckgo.com") # or your website of choice
You can use ChromeOptions and supply binary.
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
opt = Options()
opt.binary_location = chromium_path//path to chromium binary
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=opt, executable_path="path_to_chromedriver")
I am having issues getting an instance of a Chrome browser from selenium in python. I'm using Windows 8. I have downloaded the chromedriver binary and added it to my path but I get the following error in Python:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'ChromeDriver executable needs to be available in the path.
This error occurs for the following line:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='path\to\chromedriver_win32_2.0')
Two ways to set it, you somehow mixed up.
Put the chromedriver.exe's path into PATH (on Windows), so your PATH setting is correct, but you need to call the default constructor.
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
Specify the path in webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='some path'). Here you need the full path to the executable, not the directory.
webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Users\HaranKumar\Downloads\chromedriver_win32_2.0\chromedriver.exe')
Choose either one you want.
Assuming that your path is correct, make sure that you include the chromedriver itself: chromedriver.exe
I used the following and it worked! Thanks!
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\chromedriver.exe')
#put your own path between the ''
Even if you have chromedriver.exe in the PATH, its necessary to have chromedriver.exe in the folder where your executable scripts are present(atleast so is the case when it comes to python scripts)
for python(selenium) you will need:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver import Chrome
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
then put your chromedriver.exe path in. the "r" is just to prevent it from detecting the \ and causing errors in python
PATH = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
you can now order the driver to get websites
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
Update 2021
For Python
I got Selenium to open my default Chrome browser with my profile using this:
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\Sams\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data")
options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Default')
Go to: chrome://version/
Look for your "Profile Path"
profile path image
Copy your Profile Path and replace "options.add_argument("--user-data-dir={YOUR PROFILE PATH}")"
The second argument may also look different. Mine so happens to be "Default". For other it may be "Profile 1" or "Profile X" X being an incrementing number.
Close all your Chrome browsers before running. Because the Chrome Driver cannot run an automated browser alongside the rest of your other tabs.
Here is my entire Selenium Config. Hopefully it helps someone.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver import WebDriver
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1080")
options.add_argument("--log-level=3")
options.add_experimental_option('excludeSwitches', ['enable-logging'])
# The 2 arguments below will use your main browser.
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\Sams\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data") # profile path (C)
options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Default')
options.headless = False # To show Chrome or not to show?
PATH = (r"C:\Users\Sams\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\chromedriver.exe")
CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = PATH
driver = webdriver.Chrome(CHROMEDRIVER_PATH, options=options)
I recently ran into this error and I found three main solutions for this chromedriver not in path error
download a library that does it - webdriver_manager or chromedriver_autoinstaller both work
add it to path in your program
add chromedriver executable to your system PATH
Update 2016
The following solution works for me, with WebDriver 3.0.1, Chrome Driver 2.25.426923, Window 7
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","D:\\workspace\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver;
driver = new ChromeDriver();
*Note:
Chrome Driver
See also: http://www.frontendtest.org/blog/path-executable-chrome/