What modules should I use to make a Python script where Python gets the name of a video, opens up a Chrome window, opens Youtube and plays the first result. I've tried Youtube Data API but it's not for that kind of things.
You can use the subprocess to call a browser and run the url you request. With this minimal code you can ask for a website to go, and open in firefox. But you can use it as a bootstrap code for your application using chrome.
import subprocess
url = input('What site you would to go: ')
subprocess.Popen(['firefox',url])
Using this template, you can just change the code to ask for a youtube link. If you have firefox installed you can just run it.
from selenium import webdriver
# You could also use Chrome, I just default to Firefox
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('URL within some quotes')
# And if you want full-screen, finish it off with
driver.maximize_window()
And boom, that's a really quick way to open a site. You need to pip install selenium, of course, but this is my preferred way. Just wanted to offer an additional option.
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I want to use python to automatically enter a website, login to it and maybe pressing some buttons or something like that(for example entering an online class automatically).
And I also don't want to use selenium or something like that(I don't want to use web drivers).
And if you are suggesting me the "requests" please tell me how should I do it.
thanks a lot for your help.
You cannot use requests or beautifulsoup or urllib for clicking purposes,
Here is the answer for why you can't
I suggest you to use selenium it is easy to use here is the documentation
https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/en/
And you can download chrome driver from here (if you are using chrome):
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
If you want a detailed explanation on how to install driver and start creating some scripts i found a youtube video which explains it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iAqUVvytJk&ab_channel=TheAmericanDeveloper
I am trying to get the current url opened in my pc in any browser using python.
I tried selenium it worked but it opens up a new browser window. I only want to get the current url opened in the browser.
Any help would be appreciated.
use keylogger in python, that would easiest solution, orelse you should catch each and every packets in network.
Selenium isn't made for such purposes. It can be used to automate testing of websites or for website scraping. Selenium associated with a driver (like Chrome's driver for example) is just a fancy browser that let's you interact with it in a non-intrusive way.
If you need to interact with already running apps, you could attach to another process's memory and read stuff directly from there but it might be very messy.
Also, see: Interact with other programs using Python
I have this python code, which accesses a website using the module webbrowser:
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open('kahoot.it')
How could I input information into a text box on this website?
I suggest you use Selenium for that matter.
Here is an example code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
# driver = webdriver.Firefox() # Use this if you prefer Firefox.
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('http://www.google.com/')
search_input = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('input.gLFyf.gsfi')[0]
search_input.send_keys('some search string' + Keys.RETURN)
You can use Selenium better if you know HTML and CSS well. Knowing Javascript/JQuery may help too.
You need the specific webdriver to run it properly:
GeckoDriver (Firefox)
Chrome
There are other webdrivers available, but one of the previous should be enough for you.
On Windows, you should have the executable on the same folder as your code. On Ubuntu, you should copy the webdriver file to /usr/local/bin/
You can use Selenium not only to input information, but also to a lot of other utilities.
I don't think that's doable with the webbrowser module, I suggest you take a look at Selenium
How to use Selenium with Python?
Depending on how complex (interactive, reliant on scripts, ...) your activity is, you can use requests or, as others have suggested, selenium.
Requests allows you to send and get basic data from websites, you would probably use this when automatically submitting an order form, querying an API, checking if a page has ben updated, ...
Selenium gives you programmatic control of a "normal" browser, this seems better for you specific use-case.
The webbrowser module is actually only (more or less) able to open a browser. You can use this if you want to open a link from inside your application.
Hi I'm trying to use Selenium python to use a url that is already open on Internet Explorer. I had a look around and not sure if this is possible.
The reason why I wouldn't like to open new brower or tab is because the page changes to different text.
So far my text only opens a new browser
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from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Ie()
driver.get("https://outlook.live.com/owa/")
This answer helped me with same problem.
By now you can not access previously opened tabs with selenium.
But you can try to recreate your session, passing what is needed using requests library, for example.
Like for example first open Safari
os.system("open /Applications/Safari.app")
Then go to a user inputs something else and it will be inputed into the search bar and searched.
Also for this example
os.system("open /Applications/Messages.app")
Then send a message to someone.
And this example if possible:
os.system("open /Applications/Dictionary.app")
And search for a word?
Thank you so much :D
That's not how it works. In your example, you're just using python to execute a shell command. Once the program opens, it's not going to just give you information about what is happening unless it is specifically designed to do so or supports some sort of api.
If you want to automate web task - look at selenium
Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. Through Selenium Python API you can access all functionalities of Selenium WebDriver in an intuitive way.
Selenium Python bindings provide a convenient API to access Selenium WebDrivers like Firefox, Ie, Chrome, Remote etc.
Here is a link to what is selenium and webdrivers
see you can do this:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("pycon")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source
driver.close()
see here for a breakdown of the code
For your message example you can use Skype4Py API
Those are all OS X apps, so I'm going to take a leap and assume you're using a Mac. The Automator app might be more appropriate for this task as it basically helps you easily write AppleScript applications.
For Web Automation:
Selenium Python BindingsI have a detailed example here along with some helpful links.
Splinter (simpler than selenium)
In order to do that you need to use the application on the macbook called automator. This way, you will have permission to access application's source code and edit it, essentially.