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.
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driver = webdriver.chrome()
driver.get(url)
Webdriver are used to open a web page.
But if I turn it.
First open a web page, and then use webdriver access source, feasible? ??
（The first time to come here to ask questions, did not find the forum on python.
I do not know right here!）
For example:
first open manually with firefox stackoverflow.com
Then use python's webdriver to get its source code
Is there a way?
(My English is not good, automatic translation)
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
CODE
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.
In my previous question which was answered greatly, I was told how to interact with a website with selenium but unfortunately interacting with the flash game itself is now the problem. I have tried researching how to do it in Selenium but it can't be done. I've seen FlashSelenium, Sikuli, and AutoIT.
I can only find documentation for FlashSelenium in Java, It's easier for me to use AutoIT rather than Sikuli as I'd have to learn to use Jpython to create the kind of script I want to, which I am not straying away from learning just trying to finish this as fast as possible. As for AutoIT, the only problem with it is that I don't undertsand how to use it with selenium
from selenium import webdriver
import autoit
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://na58.evony.com/s.html?loginid=747970653D74727947616D65&adv=index")
driver.maximize_window()
assert "Evony - Free forever " in driver.title
So far I have this and It's doing what is suppose to do which is create a new account using that "driver.get" but when I reach to the page, it is all flash and I can not interact with anything in the webpage so I have to use AutoIT but I don't know how to get it to "pick-up" from where selenium left off. I want it to interact with a button on the webpage and from viewing a previous post on stackoverflow I can use a (x,y) to specify the location but unfortunately that post didn't explain beyond that. Any and all information would be great, thanks.
I'm programming a web-scraper app with python. The website I want to scrape data use JS.
How can I get the source that I see in inspect element?
With javascript pycurl will not work, you need Selenium to get the stuff you need.
import selenium
driver = selenium.webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("your_url")
Make sure you have Firefox (or another browser selenium supports) installed.