I was using a script to extract some data from the italian morningstar website and it was working fine. Although since few months, it is appearing a pop-up (caches) straight when I open the webpage.
I used to handle the pop-up by referencing the html element and close it. This method was working fine for a while, then I don't know why since few weeks ago every time I close the popup by accepting all the cookies and I browse into the webpage it continues to reappear (Even if I try to close the pop-up manually!).
If I navigate through Chrome, once I accept the cookies it stops showing, but with selenium webdriver if I accept the cookies the popup continues to show in the same internet session. I tried everything, including importing all the cookies from Chrome but nothing changed.
Do you have a suggestion?
Here is the pop-up showing
You can switch to pop up and close it if its a html popup. If its not, you must use some autoit/automac or something similar depending on the platform.
You coud try something like
public static void PopUp()
{
_webDriver.SwitchTo().Alert().Accept();
}
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This is what the alert looks like. It reads: The proxy it3.prmsrvs.com is requesting a username and password I have a program in Selenium that automates a certain amount of stuff on a website.
For some reason (this has been encountered also by my colleagues when using the browser normally without automation) there is the possibility of a pop-up showing in the webpage at a random point.
My program's objective is to load a page, get a list of all the elements corresponding to a specific tag and then click on them one by one. They all open in a new tab.
There is the possibility of a pop-up to show in the page after closing one of the tabs.
This pop-up asks for a login but all I have to do is dismiss it and the page will keep working like always.
Now, I've seen people using driver.switch_to.alert.dismiss() but this doesn't seem to work on this page.
I checked the function on a very basic js alert and the dismiss works perfectly, so I think it's the type of alert that is the issue.
I can't inspect the page so I don't know how to retrieve the iFrame of this alert. (I saw this as a possible solution online)
What should I do?
I'm using Selenium in Python 3 to access webpages, and I want to click on a pop-up button, but I am unable to locate it with Selenium.
What I'm describing below applies to a number of sites with a pop-up, so I'll use a simple example.
url = "https://www.google.co.uk"
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.implicitly_wait(10)
driver.get(url)
The page has a pop-up for agreeing to cookies.
I want the script to click on the "I agree" button, but I'm unable to locate it.
I've found a few questions and posts about this online (including on Stackoverflow), but all the suggestions I found seem to fall in one of the following categories and don't seem to work for me.
Wait longer for the pop-up to actually load.
I've tried adding delays, and in fact, I'm testing this interactively, so I can wait all I want for the page to load before I try to locate the button, but it doesn't make any difference.
Use something like driver.switch_to.alert
I get a NoAlertPresentException. The pop-up doesn't seem to be an alert.
Locate the element using driver.find_element.
This doesn't work either, regardless of which approach I use (xpath, class name, text etc.). I can find elements from the page under the pop-up, but nothing from the pop-up itself. For example,
# Elements in main page (under pop-up)
driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("Sign in") # returns FirefoxWebElement
driver.find_element_by_class_name("gb_g") # returns FirefoxWebElement
# Elements on the pop-up
driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("I agree") # NoSuchElementException
driver.find_element_by_class_name("RveJvd snByac") # NoSuchElementException
The popup just doesn't seem to be there in the page source. In fact, if I try looking at the loaded page source from the browser, I can't find anything related to the pop-up. I understand that many sites use client-side scripts to load elements dynamically, so many elements wouldn't show up in the raw source, but that was the point of using Selenium: to load the page, interpret the scripts and access the end result.
So, what am I doing wrong? Where is the pop-up coming from, and how can I access it?
I want to be able to use pure selenium webdriver to open a zoom link in Chrome and then redirect me to the zoom.us application.
When I execute this:
from selenium import webdriver
def main():
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://zoom.us/j/000-000-000")
main()
I receive a pop-up saying
https://zoom.us wants to open this application.
and I must press a button titled open zoom.us to open the app.
Is there a way to press this pop-up button through selenium. Or, is there some other way to open zoom from chromedriver?
NOTE: I only want to use selenium. I have been able to implement pyautogui to click on the button but that is not what I am looking for.
Solution for Java:
driver.switchTo().alert().accept();
Solution for Python:
driver.switch_to.alert.accept()
There are a lot of duplicated questions regarding this issue. Here is one of them, and it is quite sure that selenium is not capable of achieving such job since it only interacts with the chrome page. I previously encountered this issue as well and here is my solution to it. It might look really unprofessional, but fortunately it works.
The logic of my solution is to change the setting of chrome in order to skip the popup and directly open the application you want. However, the Chrome team has removed this feature in the latter version for some reasons, and we need to get it back manually. Then, we know that everytime when selenium starts to do the thing it opens a new Chrome page with NO customized settings just like the incognito page. Therefore we need to do something to let selenium opened a Chrome page with your customized setting, so that we can make sure that the popup, which we changed manually to skip, can be skipped successfully.
Type the following code in your terminal.
defaults write com.google.Chrome ExternalProtocolDialogShowAlwaysOpenCheckbox -bool true
This enables you to change the setting of skipping popups, which is the feature Chrome team removed.
Restart Chrome,and open the zoom (or whatever application) page to let the popup display. If you do the 1st step correctly you will be able to see there is a checkbox shown next to the "Open Zoom.us" saying if you check it chrome will open this application without asking, that is, to skip the popup for this application.
Now we need to let selenium open the Chrome with our customized setting. To do this, type "chrome://version" in the search tab of your ordinary Chrome (Not automated page opened by selenium). Go to "Profile Path", and copy this path without the last word "default". For example:
/Users/MYNAME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default
This is my profile path, but I only copy everything except the last word Default, so this is what I need to copy.
/Users/MYNAME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/
This is for Mac users, but for Windows only the path is different(starts with C:// or something), steps are same.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
option = Options()
option.add_argument('THE PATH YOU JUST COPIED')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='YOUR PATH TO CHROMEDRIVER', options=option)
driver.get("google.com") #Or anything else
We use "options" to let selenium open a page with our customized profile. Now you will see selenium opens a Chrome page with all your account profile, settings, and it just appears like your ordinary chrome page.
Run your code. But before that, remember to quit ALL CHROME sessions manually. For Mac, make sure that there is no dot under Chrome icon indicating that Chrome is not running for any circumstances. THIS STEP IS CRITICAL otherwise selenium will open a chrome page and it just stops there.
Here are all the steps. Again, this solution is vert informal and I personally don't think it is a "solution" to this problem. I will try to figure out a better way of achieving this in the future. But I still posted this as an alternative simply because I guess it might be helpful to some extent for somebody just like me. Hope it works for you, and good luck.
Is there a possibility if I code a program in python that allows to automatically browse a given website using mechanize to detect if there are popup windows (suggesting advertisements or downloading actions ...) using Python ?. I would appreciate any hint (for example, if you give me a library that fulfills this task I would be very happy)
Mechanize cannot handle javascript and popup windows:
How do I use Mechanize to process JavaScript?
Mechanize and Javascript
To accomplish the goal, you need to utilize a real browser, headless or not. This is where selenium would help. It has a built-in support for popup dialogs:
Selenium WebDriver has built-in support for handling popup dialog
boxes. After you’ve triggerd and action that would open a popup, you
can access the alert with the following:
alert = driver.switch_to_alert()
Example (using this jsfiddle):
from selenium import webdriver
url = "http://fiddle.jshell.net/ebkXh/show/"
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get(url)
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[#type="submit"]')
# dismiss
button.click()
driver.switch_to.alert.dismiss()
# accept
button.click()
driver.switch_to.alert.accept()
See also:
Handle Popup Windows
Click the javascript popup through webdriver
Unfortunately, Mechanize's browser seems to skip the pop-ups so the title, URL, and HTML are identical for both pop-ups and normal pages.
Frankly, Python is not the right tool for this job and is lagging behind in this respect IMHO. Having spent months doing web crawling, for sites that use Javascript extensively (the number of which is greatly increasing nowadays), I find that using Javascript-Based environments like PhantomJS or SlimerJS are simply better for what you're trying to do.
If you have the luxury to use Javascript-Based environments, I'd say go right ahead. However, you can still use python. PhantomJS embeds Ghost Driver. You can use Ghost.py to utilize the power of PhantomJS. Or you can use Selenium with Python as illustrated here.
I am working on a html with selenium. After clicking the last link, pop up comes which says as save a file.
using selenium I am recording all the events and then generating the selenium RC script.
I want to know that how to get the pop up file from code using python?
In the case of saving a file, you can get around the popup box by configuring the options of your browser profile. See this answer for an explanation using Firefox. General idea is that you need to tell Firefox itself to not prompt when saving files of certain types. Note that this will result in the file being saved somewhere, but you can also control where it goes in case you want to delete the file (or handle it separately in Python).
Webdriver cannot communicate with the browser modal popup.
But this can be done, check out the below link for your answer
http://blog.codecentric.de/en/2010/07/file-downloads-with-selenium-mission-impossible/