I attempted to scrape the Godaddy website but was unsuccessful.
When I conduct a search for a particular name, it comes up "We were unable to complete your search. Please try again." and a standard browser can use it just well (without selenium).
Sorry if I've inconvenienced you with this query; this is my first time doing it.
Url to scrape : https://in.godaddy.com/domainsearch/find?checkAvail=1&domainToCheck=bjmtuc.club
from selenium import webdriver
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.set_capability("goog:loggingPrefs", {"performance": "ALL", "browser": "ALL"})
chrome_options.add_argument("user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36")
driver_path = 'drive_path'
service = Service(driver_path) # service path set
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=chrome_options) # working fine
url = 'https://in.godaddy.com/domainsearch/find?checkAvail=1&domainToCheck=bjmtuc.club'
driver.get(url)
Edit 1:
It said "Try disabling ad blockers and other extensions, enabling javascript, or using a different web browser." when I created a fake account and tried to log in.
Since I don't use any extensions or ad blockers, I tried turning on javascript right away. It stated the same thing and did not work.
Code added:
chrome_options.add_argument("javascript.enabled")
Looks like the search doesn't work for unauthenticated users. Try opening your url manually from the incognito mode (or just logout).
If you open this link as authenticated user you get the result of the search
But if you logout and then try to open this link you recieve "We were unable to complete your search. Please try again."
So, when you open this link manually it shows the result because you are authenticated on the site. And even if you reopen your browser and go open this link - the search result will be shown because you are still authenticated on the site. This authentication is saved into browser sessions which are stored on your computer only for your user.
But when you try to open this link using Selenium, it opens browser with its (selenium's) own saved sessions. But you didn't login into the site with Selenium, so there are no authenticated sessions. Furthermore, each time Selenium opens a browser, it creates new sessions.
So, possible solutions are:
Add login steps before opening the link
Configure selenium to use your saved sessions
Make a separate code for login into the site (or open the site with Selenium but login manually) and create a place where sessions for Selenium will be stored. And then configure all your tests to use this place for using saved sessions.
I am running the Chrome driver over Selenium on a Ubuntu server behind a residential proxy network. Yet, my Selenium is being detected. Is there a way to make the Chrome driver and Selenium 100% undetectable?
I have been trying for so long I lost track of the many things I have done including:
Trying different versions of Chrome
Adding several flags and removing some words from the Chrome driver file.
Running it behind a proxy (residential ones also) using incognito mode.
Loading profiles.
Random mouse movements.
Randomising everything.
I am looking for a true version of Selenium that is 100% undetectable. If that ever existed. Or another automation way that is not detectable by bot trackers.
This is part of the starting of the browser:
sx = random.randint(1000, 1500)
sn = random.randint(3000, 4500)
display = Display(visible=0, size=(sx,sn))
display.start()
randagent = random.randint(0,len(useragents_desktop)-1)
uag = useragents_desktop[randagent]
#this is to prevent ip leaking
preferences =
"webrtc.ip_handling_policy" : "disable_non_proxied_udp",
"webrtc.multiple_routes_enabled": False,
"webrtc.nonproxied_udp_enabled" : False
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("prefs", preferences)
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-impl-side-painting")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-setuid-sandbox")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-seccomp-filter-sandbox")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-breakpad")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-client-side-phishing-detection")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-cast")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-cast-streaming-hw-encoding")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-cloud-import")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-popup-blocking")
chrome_options.add_argument("--ignore-certificate-errors")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-session-crashed-bubble")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-ipv6")
chrome_options.add_argument("--allow-http-screen-capture")
chrome_options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
wsize = "--window-size=" + str(sx-10) + ',' + str(sn-10)
chrome_options.add_argument(str(wsize) )
prefs = {"profile.managed_default_content_settings.images": 2}
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)
chrome_options.add_argument("blink-settings=imagesEnabled=true")
chrome_options.add_argument("start-maximized")
chrome_options.add_argument("user-agent="+uag)
chrome_options.add_extension(pluginfile)#this is for the residential proxy
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/usr/bin/chromedriver", chrome_options=chrome_options)
The fact that selenium driven WebDriver gets detected doesn't depends on any specific Selenium, Chrome or ChromeDriver version. The Websites themselves can detect the network traffic and can identify the Browser Client i.e. Web Browser as WebDriver controled.
However some generic approaches to avoid getting detected while web-scraping are as follows:
The first and foremost attribute a website can determine your script/program is through your monitor size. So it is recommended not to use the conventional Viewport.
If you need to send multiple requests to a website, you need to keep on changing the user-agent on each request. You can find a detailed discussion in Way to change Google Chrome user agent in Selenium?
To simulate human like behavior you may require to slow down the script execution even beyond WebDriverWait and expected_conditions inducing time.sleep(secs). Here you can find a detailed discussion on How to sleep webdriver in python for milliseconds
#Antoine Vastel in his blog site Detecting Chrome Headless mentioned several approaches, which distinguish the Chrome browser from a headless Chrome browser.
User agent: The user agent attribute is commonly used to detect the OS as well as the browser of the user. With Chrome version 59 it has the following value:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
A check for the presence of Chrome headless can be done through:
if (/HeadlessChrome/.test(window.navigator.userAgent)) {
console.log("Chrome headless detected");
}
Plugins: navigator.plugins returns an array of plugins present in the browser. Typically, on Chrome we find default plugins, such as Chrome PDF viewer or Google Native Client. On the opposite, in headless mode, the array returned contains no plugin.
A check for the presence of Plugins can be done through:
if(navigator.plugins.length == 0) {
console.log("It may be Chrome headless");
}
Languages: In Chrome two Javascript attributes enable to obtain languages used by the user: navigator.language and navigator.languages. The first one is the language of the browser UI, while the second one is an array of string representing the user’s preferred languages. However, in headless mode, navigator.languages returns an empty string.
A check for the presence of Languages can be done through:
if(navigator.languages == "") {
console.log("Chrome headless detected");
}
WebGL: WebGL is an API to perform 3D rendering in an HTML canvas. With this API, it is possible to query for the vendor of the graphic driver as well as the renderer of the graphic driver. With a vanilla Chrome and Linux, we can obtain the following values for renderer and vendor: Google SwiftShader and Google Inc.. In headless mode, we can obtain Mesa OffScreen, which is the technology used for rendering without using any sort of window system and Brian Paul, which is the program that started the open source Mesa graphics library.
A check for the presence of WebGL can be done through:
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
var gl = canvas.getContext('webgl');
var debugInfo = gl.getExtension('WEBGL_debug_renderer_info');
var vendor = gl.getParameter(debugInfo.UNMASKED_VENDOR_WEBGL);
var renderer = gl.getParameter(debugInfo.UNMASKED_RENDERER_WEBGL);
if(vendor == "Brian Paul" && renderer == "Mesa OffScreen") {
console.log("Chrome headless detected");
}
Not all Chrome headless will have the same values for vendor and renderer. Others keep values that could also be found on non headless version. However, Mesa Offscreen and Brian Paul indicates the presence of the headless version.
Browser features: Modernizr library enables to test if a wide range of HTML and CSS features are present in a browser. The only difference we found between Chrome and headless Chrome was that the latter did not have the hairline feature, which detects support for hidpi/retina hairlines.
A check for the presence of hairline feature can be done through:
if(!Modernizr["hairline"]) {
console.log("It may be Chrome headless");
}
Missing image: The last on our list also seems to be the most robust, comes from the dimension of the image used by Chrome in case an image cannot be loaded. In case of a vanilla Chrome, the image has a width and height that depends on the zoom of the browser, but are different from zero. In a headless Chrome, the image has a width and an height equal to zero.
A check for the presence of Missing image can be done through:
var body = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];
var image = document.createElement("img");
image.src = "http://iloveponeydotcom32188.jg";
image.setAttribute("id", "fakeimage");
body.appendChild(image);
image.onerror = function(){
if(image.width == 0 && image.height == 0) {
console.log("Chrome headless detected");
}
}
References
You can find a couple of similar discussions in:
How to bypass Google captcha with Selenium and python?
How to make Selenium script undetectable using GeckoDriver and Firefox through Python?
tl; dr
Selenium webdriver: Modifying navigator.webdriver flag to prevent selenium detection
How does recaptcha 3 know I'm using selenium/chromedriver?
Selenium and non-headless browser keeps asking for Captcha
why not try undetected-chromedriver?
Optimized Selenium Chromedriver patch which does not trigger anti-bot services like Distill Network / Imperva / DataDome / Botprotect.io Automatically downloads the driver binary and patches it.
Tested until current chrome beta versions
Works also on Brave Browser and many other Chromium based browsers
Python 3.6++
you can install it with: pip install undetected-chromedriver
There are important things you should be ware of:
Due to the inner workings of the module, it is needed to browse programmatically (ie: using .get(url) ). Never use the gui to navigate. Using your keybord and mouse for navigation causes possible detection! New Tabs: same story. If you really need multi-tabs, then open the tab with the blank page (hint: url is data:, including comma, and yes, driver accepts it) and do your thing as usual. If you follow these "rules" (actually its default behaviour), then you will have a great time for now.
In [1]: import undetected_chromedriver as uc
In [2]: driver = uc.Chrome()
In [3]: driver.execute_script('return navigator.webdriver')
Out[3]: True # Detectable
In [4]: driver.get('https://distilnetworks.com') # starts magic
In [4]: driver.execute_script('return navigator.webdriver')
In [5]: None # Undetectable!
For Python with Chrome or Chromium-based browsers, there's Selenium-Profiles
It currently supports:
Overwrite device metrics with fake-profiles
Mobile and Desktop emulation
Undetected by Google, Cloudflare, ..
Modifying headers supported using Selenium-Interceptor
Touch Actions
proxies with authentication
making single POST, GET or other requests using driver.requests.fetch(url, options) (syntax)
Installation
pip install selenium-profiles
Example script
from selenium_profiles.driver import driver as mydriver
from selenium_profiles.profiles import profiles
mydriver = mydriver()
driver = mydriver.start(profiles.Windows()) # or .Android
# get url
driver.get('https://nowsecure.nl/#relax') # test undetectability
input("Press ENTER to exit: ")
driver.quit() # Execute on the End!
Notes:
The package is licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License , means, in case you want to use it for something commercial, you need to ask the author first.
headless support currently isn't guaranteed, but you can use pyvirtualdisplay
What about:
import random
from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:\\Users\\DusEck\\Desktop\\chromedriver.exe")
username = "username" # data_user
password = "password" # data_pass
driver.get("https://www.depop.com/login/") # get URL
driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/div/div[3]/div[2]/button[2]').click() # Accept cookies
split_char_pw = [] # Empty lists
split_char = []
n = 1 # Splitter
for index in range(0, len(username), n):
split_char.append(username[index: index + n])
for user_letter in split_char:
time.sleep(random.uniform(0.1, 0.8))
driver.find_element_by_id("username").send_keys(user_letter)
for index in range(0, len(password), n):
split_char.append(password[index: index + n])
for pw_letter in split_char_pw:
time.sleep(random.uniform(0.1, 0.8))
driver.find_element_by_id("password").send_keys(pw_letter)
i have a website that i want to login to and it should stay like that for multiple sessions
I tried pickle to save cookies once logged in and then load the cookies when running the script again
but this doesn't work the website logs me out
So i tried to set custom profile for firefox
but checking which profile its running on by adding code
# 2- get tmp file location
profiletmp = driver.firefox_profile.path
# but... the current profile is a copy of the original profile :/
print("running profile " + profiletmp)
shows me that i'm running in a tmp directory copied from the main profile mentioned /tmp/xxxxxxxx/webdriver-py-copy
so according to the answer here (Python / Selenium / Firefox: Can't start firefox with specified profile path) i tried copying the folder to main profile but still when loading browser all changes are lost (ex; i made a bookmark and logged into a site then copied the folder over to main profile replacing all the files but still when opening firefox all changes are lost)
i can only retain changes if i manually use Firefox profile and then login without geckodriver now when gecko driver loads the page i'm logged in
by adding custom profile location in chromedriver it retains data but i have different issues with chrome and i want to use firefox
I am automating a browser process but same credentials are used by all the persons(only one user can access the portal at a time), so whenever somebody else login-in, the current user is automatically kicked out with url change to "http://172.17.3.248:8889/ameyoreports/?acpMode=false#loggedOut".
Is there any way to constantly check for url change while my automatation script is running along and when logout is detected end the script.
I am using python selenium webdriver.
In Java we can take help from EventLister https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/support/events/WebDriverEventListener.html for example if you implement it
public class Test2 implements WebDriverEventListener{
#Override
public void beforeFindBy(By arg0, WebElement arg1, WebDriver driver) {
if(driver.getCurrentUrl().equals("http://172.17.3.248:8889/ameyoreports/?acpMode=false#loggedOut")==true) {
//do want you want.
}
}
we have to use the same like below to cross check url before doing any action (as per above example, cross check url before finding element)
FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
EventFiringWebDriver eventDriver = new EventFiringWebDriver(driver);
EventHandler handler = new EventHandler();
eventDriver.register(handler);
eventDriver.get("url");
in Java it helps http://toolsqa.com/selenium-webdriver/event-listener/ for python http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/api.html#module-selenium.webdriver.support.abstract_event_listener
hey there is current_url attribute associated with the selenium webdriver object, you will be able to fetch the changed url using webdriver.current_url.
Keep a check for that and you can break your script whenever you want.
You can test it with the following code
#using chrome webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
browser = Options()
instance = webdriver.Chrome(webdriver_path, options=browser)
instance.get(url)
instance.current_url <<<<<<< this will give the current url opened in browser
# manually enter another url in the browser then again check
instance.current_url
ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile ffprofile = profile.getProfile("default");//using firefox default profile
ffprofile.setPreference("permissions.default.image", 2); // this make ff to block web page images
WebDriver ff = new FirefoxDriver(ffprofile); // executing firefox with specified profile
ff.navigate().to("www.google.com"); // loading web page
//codes for changing image blocking ???????????
How can I change the image blocking after loading some web pages?
It is possible to modify preferences in flight via dev toolbar CLI but it may introduce higher overhead than loading images.
Here is Python example:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains, Keys
ff = webdriver.Firefox()
ff.get('http//<URL>')
ac = ActionChains(ff)
# SHIFT+F2 opens dev toolbar
ac.key_down(Keys.SHIFT).send_keys(Keys.F2).key_up(Keys.SHIFT).perform()
# command to disable images
ac.send_keys('pref set permissions.default.image 2').perform()
ac.send_keys(Keys.ENTER).perform()
# command to disable flash
ac.send_keys('pref set plugin.state.flash 0').perform()
ac.send_keys(Keys.ENTER).perform()
# disable dev toolbar
ac.key_down(Keys.SHIFT).send_keys(Keys.F2).key_up(Keys.SHIFT).perform()
ac.key_down(Keys.SHIFT).send_keys(Keys.F2).key_up(Keys.SHIFT).perform()
# reload the page to confirm there are no images or flash
ff.refresh()
Since the dev toolbar CLI does not work for me (since the key combination does not open the CLI) here is how I managed to change profile settings of a running firefox instance:
IWebDriver driver = //your instance
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("about:config");
driver.FindElement(By.Id("warningButton")).Click();
IJavaScriptExecutor js = (IJavaScriptExecutor)driver;
js.ExecuteScript("window.Services.prefs.setIntPref('permissions.default.image', " + 2 + ")");
It's C# but the conversion in Java should not be too hard.
The idea is that the about:config tab declares a lot of Javascript object allowing to change the profile settings, so we just have to go on that page and to execute some JS code.
Run the firefox from command line firefox.exe -p
After that create a new profile, set the neccessery settings and always call this profile.
FirefoxProfile ffprofile = profile.getProfile("profileName");