im just trying to use an vpn extension with selenium. I have the extension running , but i need to click in the button and enable the vpn so it can works, there's a way to do that with selenium? im thinking to use another similar option like scrapy or pyautogui...
No there is no way to enable the VPN on your extension
If you want to use your VPN extension you have to set a profile (otherwise selenium will create a new profile without installed extension)
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How to use normal chrome completely without chromedriver selenium python not duplicate.
I am using python 3.8.8,os is windows 7 ultimate with pycharm as
IDE and chrome version is around 96. and my problem is that whenever I use my python script to scrape a website it uses chromedriver and when I specify what's given below:
options = Options ()
options.add_argument(r"user-data-dir=my chrome path which is not Executable instead the user data")
#this works but when opening chrome it shows "browser is controlled by automated software" and changing it to normal chrome. Exe won't work
Sure it uses normal chrome with my credentials but it still needs chromedriver to work and when I delete the chromedriver it throw an error and when I go into selenium source code in a file called site.py(or sites.py) which I changed the variable self. executable to chrome.exe path and it worked and it won't show the message browser is controlled by automated software but it won't do anything , it is just stuck there and what I want to do is use chrome as the browser to scrape without chromedriver in my pc is it possible? If yes please tell me how should I go on to do it and you can ask for further Clarification and details and Thanks in advance
By default, selenium is detected as an automated software and is flagged by most websites, and the flag is unable to be removed. There are, however, external libraries that can be installed that can remove the flag.
There are options here to try to get around the default flag and hide the fact the browser is automated.
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I understand the question further, and see that you want a more portable chrome option. Chrome driver is a very specific program controlled by selenium and must be used. There is no substitute. You can use Firefox driver or internet explorer, but a webdriver must be used (hence the name driver for driving the main browser). When you specify the directory for the Chrome binary, you aren’t removing the middleman of the chromedriver, only Specifying where chrome driver needs to look!
Using Selenium you won't be able to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. Chrome Browser session without the ChromeDriver.
The Parts and Pieces
As a minimum requirement, the WebDriver i.e the ChromeDriver talks to a browser through a driver and the communication is two way:
WebDriver passes commands to the browser through the driver
Receives information back via the same route.
Hence using ChromeDriver is a mandatory requirement.
I tried everything that I found. Tried to connect with extension but it was unsuccessful (I didn't find a ext config). Tried to internal settings (about:config). Tried connect with JS inside chrome.
Can I just use proxy for entire process (WebDriver)?
Chrome cant work with socks5, but you can use it in Firefox with addon (Proxyfoxy)
Create WEbDrive
Install addon
Setup proxy and select it
Done!
I have up and running an Apache Server with Python 3.x installed already on it. Right now I am trying to run ON the server a little python program (let's say filename.py). But this python program uses the webdriver for Chrome from Selenium. Also it uses sleep from time (but I think this comes by default, so I figure it won't be a problem)
from selenium import webdriver
When I code this program for the first time on my computer, not only I had to write the line of code above but also to manually download the webdriver for Chrome and paste it on /usr/local/bin. Here is the link to the file in case you wonder: Webdriver for Chorme
Anyway, I do not know what the equivalences are to configure this on my server. Do you have any idea how to do it? Or any concepts I could learn related to installing packages on an Apache Server?
Simple solution:
You don't need to install the driver in usr/local/bin. You can have the .exe anywhere and you can specify that with an executable path, see here for an example.
Solution for running on a server
If you have python installed on the server, ideally >3.4 which comes with pip as default. Then install ChromeDriver on a standalone server, follow the instructions here
Note that, Selenium always need an instance of a browser to control.
Luckily, there are browsers out there that aren't that heavy as the usual browsers you know. You don't have to open IE / Firefox / Chrome / Opera. You can use HtmlUnitDriver which controls HTMLUnit - a headless Java browser that does not have any UI. Or a PhantomJsDriver which drives PhantomJS - another headless browser running on WebKit.
Those headless browsers are much less memory-heavy, usually are faster (since they don't have to render anything), they don't require a graphical interface to be available for the computer they run at and are therefore easily usable server-side.
Sample code of headless setup
op = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
op.add_argument('headless')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=op)
It's also worth reading on running Selenium RC, see here on that.
I'm looking for a solution that could help me out automating the already opened application in Chrome web browser using Selenium and Python web driver. The issue is that the application is super secured, and if it is opened in incognito mode as Selenium tries to do, it sends special code on my phone. This defeats the whole purpose. Can someone provide a hacky way or any other work around/open source tool to automate the application.
Selenium doesn't start Chrome in incognito mode, It just creates a new and fresh profile in the temp folder. You could force Selenium to use the default profile or you could launch Chrome with the debug port opened and the let Selenium connect to it. There is also a third way which is to preinstall the webdriver extension in Chrome. These are the only ways I've encountered to automate Chrome with Selenium.
I am now developing a webpage crawler, unfortunately the website generates the results by ajax. Following some coders suggestion, I tried to use selenium, a test automation tool for python.
As the example given in the documentation:
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
This code executes to open the Firefox browser. And then do something just like filling the form, submitting and so on.
Frankly speaking, this example works well on my PC(ubuntu 12.10), but my project will finally transfer to a CentOS server.
What I am considering is whether the code(need to open a browser gui) can be successfully ran on the CentOS server over ssh because no KDE such as gnome provided on that machine.....
And if without browser gui, the code cannot work well, then is there any other solutions?
Any reply would be admired~
You can probably use the HtmlUnit driver if you enable javascript. The only way to be sure though is to test it out. Another option would be to try and run with an X framebuffer.