I am facing a very peculiar issue with Selenium Webdriver. All of sudden my selenium scripts written in python have started to execute very slow in both firefox and chrome.
The script execution returns to its normal speed when I manually turn off the network/internet through my laptop's wifi button after a webpage is loaded. The same scripts run at normal speed on another computer (on my office network) where I connect to internet through VPN.
Another example is when I run my scripts on a locally stored webpage file (htm). The scripts run superfast when internet is turned off but run equally slow when the internet is turned on.
I do not use a proxy server.
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I'm new to programming, this being my first post, but I was wondering if there was a way to make selenium run while my computer is turned off? I made an instagram bot with selenium webdriver python but it only runs when I run it from my computer and turns off when I turn off my computer. I have seen post saying to host it in PythonAnywhere which I tried but selenium requires a webdriver (im using firefox so gekodriver). Is there a way of fixing this or is there another way of making an insagram bot without selenium webdriver?
Thank you
You can use virtual machine and host a server and then through DevOps pipelines (Azure Pipelines/ Jenkins) can make your scripts run without manual intervention.
I have a python selenium script that uses chromedriver in headless mode to test links on a website. I'm running this script on MacOS High Sierra.
If I have Chrome open prior to running the script, I can continue to use the browser normally. Headless mode appears to isolate me from the testing. However, if Chrome is closed first, I cannot launch the browser while the selenium script is running.
Looking at Activity monitor in the first scenario, it appears to me that chromedriver creates a new process for Chrome to run. So I (perhaps incorrectly) assumed I should be able to launch the browser manually while the script is running.
What am I missing?
How do I launch Chrome while selenium is running on Mac?
Ah-HA!
This post I stumbled upon made it possible to open Chrome while selenium is running (although I don't understand why it works one way but not the other).
For most applications, launching with open -naF "App Name" or open -nF
/path/to/application.app should be sufficient (see Safari, Forklift,
Office apps, etc.).
-n opens a new instance
-a tells open to look in the list of registered apps (no need to specify the full path, but can go wrong if you have multiple versions
of an app. I sometimes see issues on my system with differentiating
between macOS apps and apps installed by Parallels OSes… I prefer to
specify the path directly.)
-F opens a fresh instance (ignores an app save state left over from previous instances)
I am using selenium to download data from various websites but one site in particular is giving me trouble. I narrowed it down to the fact that it will not run when the computer is locked. Everything works fine if I run it manually or if I remote desktop, but if I schedule the task to run and then lock the computer it will not run properly.
Is there a way to add something to my script which will:
Unlock my computer
Run the selenium script
Lock my computer
Or maybe schedule a remote desktop session to create an active desktop? Anyone have some advice on how to accomplish this correctly?
I have some tests written in pytest with selenium webdriver. It points to a selenium grid browser node to run the test. When i run the test from local terminal (py.test test_login.py), it will connect to the selenium grid correctly, open up the browesr and run the test.
Switching over to Jenkins, we set a job to create a build and run the same selenium tests. However, it will open the browser (chrome or firefox) but it will not run the test, it just eventually failed with timeout error. Everything is on the same network and behind the firewall. Does anyone know why the test wont run when invoked from Jenkins? It doesnt seem to be a network issue as it was able to open up the browser on the grid node.
I'm running a selenium test using Firefox-17, and it will randomly "freeze" - the window is visible but completely useless. The mouse cursor that usually shows up when you hover over a link is active over the entire firefox window, but cannot actually interact/click on the page or firefox's menus. This only happens on the Debian machine, and only with selenium. I use Firefox-28 for daily browsing, and I've never experienced any issues like this.
The code runs fine for several minutes, but then it always randomly freezes in the middle of requesting a new page. The process must then be force killed.
Things I've tried:
Using firefox-28 - still freezes at random
Running the same code on my Windows machine - this runs for hours with no problem
Hypothesis:
I'm running the tests with python's multiprocessing. (For debugging purposes I've only been using one master queue that feeds to a single driver instance.)
Could this freezing problem be related to the forking mechanism used by Linux for multiprocessing?
Maybe somehow related to the http://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/firefox-freeze-and-dbus.html - although I have no problems accessing the bbc podcast referenced in that link
I have other code that runs firefox with javascript disabled, and it hasn't had any issues on this Debian machine. Could this be something to do with Linux's javascript engine?
I finally figured out that this only occurs with javascript enabled in firefox. Fortunately, chromium doesn't have this javascript problem on the same debian system.