First of all I was not really sure how to formulate a proper question due to an insufficient knowledge of webprogramming in general, therefore my apologies.
I created a Flask app where an email in generated after a button click and the email contains HTML code (similar to http://code.activestate.com/recipes/473810/). Now the email itself also contains a button. Here's what I want to do:
When the email receiver clicks the button in the email, I want to generate an url and have acces to the database similar to what happens in e.g. the following webpage:
Html (e.g. validation.html):
<body>
<input type="button" class="validate" onclick="location.href='{{ url_for('validate.afterValidation') }}';" value="Validate" />
</body>
Python:
#validate_blueprint.route('/validate/',methods=['GET'])
def afterValidation():
return render_template('afterValidation.html')
So I want to use a similar way for rendering a template after the email button is clicked, using python to acces the database etc.
How can I achieve this?
Thanks!
Related
I created a program to fill out an HTML webpage form in Selenium, but now I want to change it to requests. However, I've come across a bit of a roadblock. I'm new to requests, and I'm not sure how to emulate a request as if a button had been pressed on the original website. Here's what I have so far -
import requests
import random
emailRandom = ''
for i in range(6):
add = random.randint(1,10)
emailRandom += str(add)
payload = {
'email':emailRandom+'#redacted',
'state_id':'34',
'tnc-optin':'on',
}
r= requests.get('redacted.com', data=payload)
The button I'm trying to "click" on the webpage looks like this -
<div class="button-container">
<input type="hidden" name="recaptcha" id="recaptcha">
<button type="submit" class="button red large">ENTER NOW</button>
</div>
What is the default/"clicked" value for this button? Will I be able to use it to submit the form using my requests code?
Using selenium and using requests are 2 different things, selenium uses your browser to submit the form via the html rendered UI, Python requests just submits the data from your python code without the html UI, it does not involve "clicking" the submit button.
The "submit" button in this case just merely triggers the browser to POST the form values.
However your backend will validate against the "recaptcha" token, so you will need to work around that.
Recommend u fiddling requests.
https://www.telerik.com/fiddler
And them recreating them.
James`s answer using selenium is slower than this.
I was doing some web scraping with python (Linkedin site) and got stuck with the following 2 issues: 1) How do I input text on a search bar? 2) How to click a button? First, this is the search bar code:
<input aria-autocomplete="list" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false"
placeholder="Búsqueda" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" id="a11y-
ember6214" role="combobox" class="ember-text-field ember-view" aria-
expanded="false">
To input the text I was using the xpath (and it works) but it changes every time I login into the site:
search = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="a11y-ember997"]')
search.send_keys('MedMake')
So could I use instead part of the input bar code above so that I can rerun my script multiple times?
My second point is 2) how to click a button. Again I was using the xpath but it changes after every login. My code was:
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="nav-search-controls-wormhole"]/button')
button.click()
I inspected the button code and I would instead like to use data-vertical="PEOPLE" or any other of this unique fields (the tag button is not enough since there are many buttons on Linkedin site). By the way,how are all these inner fields called? I believe part of my problem arises from the lack of html code understanding.
<button data-vertical="PEOPLE" data-control-
name="vertical_nav_people_toggle" data-ember-action="" data-ember-
action-8620="8620" data-is-animating-click="true">
Gente
</button>
If id attribute values are dynamic you can use other attributes with static values:
search = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#placeholder="Búsqueda"]')
search.send_keys('MedMake')
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[normalize-space()="Gente"]')
button.click()
First one use xpath
//input[contains(#class,'ember-text-field')]
Second one use the xpath
//button[#class='vertical_nav_people_toggle']
EDIT
There was a bug in Firefor driver. It was solved by using chrome driver.
I am new to python and I am developing a script that will send message on whatsapp using webwhatsapp.
But I am not able to write anything in text inputfeild using driver.send_key('message') method.
<input type="text" class="input input-search" data-tab="2" dir="auto" spellcheck="false" title="Search or start new chat" value="">
CODE
contactSearch=driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#title="Search or start new chat"]').click()
contactSearch.send_keys("name")
I have tried contactSearch.clear() and click() method also but the input remains blank.the code is from https://web.whatsapp.com/ go there login and there will be a feild called Search or start new chat.I want to input text in that field.
You are not logged in to whatsapp in your selenium session and hence there is no "New chat" button. By default, selenium starts a brand new browser session with default preferences, no browser history or cookies.
Python: 3.4.1
Browser: Chrome
I'm trying to push a button which is located in a form using Selenium with Python. I'm fairly new to Selenium and HTML.
The HTML code is as follows:
<FORM id='QLf_437222' method='POST' action='xxxx'>
<script>document.write("<a href='javascript:void(0);' onclick='document.getElementById(\"QLf_437222\").submit();' title='xxx'>51530119</a>");</script>
<noscript><INPUT type='SUBMIT' value='51530119' title='xxx' name='xxxx'></noscript>
<INPUT type=hidden name="prodType" value="DDA"/>
<INPUT type=hidden name="BlitzToken" value="BlitzToken"/>
<INPUT type=hidden name="productInfo" value="40050951530119"/>
<INPUT type=hidden name="reDirectionURL" value="xxx"/>
</FORM>
I've been trying the following:
driver.execute("javascript:void(0)")
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="QLf_437104"]/a').click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="QLf_437104"]/a').submit()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#QLf_437104 > a").click()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#QLf_437104 > a").submit()
Python doesn't throw an exception, so it seems like I'm clicking something, but it doesn't do what I want.
In addition to this the webpage acts funny when the chrome driver is initialized from Selenium. When clicking the button in the initialized chrome driver, the webpage throws an error (888).
I'm not sure where to go from here. Might it be something with the hidden elements?
If I can provide additional information please let me know.
EDIT:
It looks like the form id changes sometimes.
What it sounds like you are trying to do, is to submit the form, right?
The <a> that you are pointing out is simply submitting that form. Since that is being injected via JavaScript, it's possible that it's not showing up when you try to click it. What i'd recommend, is doing:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("form[id^='QLf']").submit()
That will avoid the button, and submit the appropriate form.
In the above CSS selector, i also used [id^= this means, find a <form> with an ID attribute that starts with QLf, because it looks like the numbers after, are automatically generated.
I'm trying to submit a form on an .asp page but Mechanize does not recognize the name of the control. The form code is:
<form id="form1" name="frmSearchQuick" method="post">
....
<input type="button" name="btSearchTop" value="SEARCH" class="buttonctl" onClick="uf_Browse('dledir_search_quick.asp');" >
My code is as follows:
br = mechanize.Browser()
br.open(BASE_URL)
br.select_form(name='frmSearchQuick')
resp = br.click(name='btSearchTop')
I've also tried the last line as:
resp = br.submit(name='btSearchTop')
The error I get is:
raise ControlNotFoundError("no control matching "+description) ControlNotFoundError: no control matching name 'btSearchTop', kind 'clickable'
If I print br I get this: IgnoreControl(btSearchTop=)
But I don't see that anywhere in the HTML.
Any advice on how to submit this form?
The button doesn't submit the form - it calls some javascript function.
Mechanize can't run javascript, so you can't use it to click that button.
The easy way out is to read that function yourself, and see what it does - if it just submits the form, then maybe you can get around it by submitting the form without clicking on anything.
you need to inspect element first, did mechanize recognize the form ?
for form in br.forms():
print form