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Can Selenium interact with an existing browser session?
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Closed 2 years ago.
I want to extract information from a news site. When I run the Python script, there is a browser that launches and connects to an X site to extract the information I need.
Each time when I want to extract information, the browser must restart on each execution.
I want to leave the browser always launched, then I execute at any time a script which allows to extract the information.
Do you have an idea please? Thank you in advance.
There are 2 ways:
1) don't close the browser window once you open it.
don't use this: driver.close())
2) don't send a get request each time you modify your code.
don't do this more than once: driver.get("some url")
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How to capture network traffic with selenium
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The issue I seem to be having is that I cannot find any way to access the network traffic responses in firefox using selenium (Python). I know that solutions exist for the Chrome webdriver, but for my case I need to use the Firefox version. I've been trying to figure this out for like have a day and I'm pulling out my hair at this point. Is there any way to get these responses?
solution using browsermob-proxy. Not exactly what I wanted, but it does give all the requests and all the responses.
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How can I reconnect to the browser opened by webdriver with selenium?
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I have more than 4 chrome browser opened in the background now I want to connect one of the browsers that already open. how do I connect?
I have all chrome (that already open) URL and session id stored in DB. but I don't know how to connect to an already open browser after once I open different browsers?
Any type of help is appreciated and if any query regarding my question please ask me.
Selenium has the option to handle the browser windows, you can use the method
"window_handles()" which will return a list of windows or tabs identified by a UUID after you can switch to whatever you want, here is a piece of code that shows the usage of that method. Also if want to handle just one window you can use "window_handle()" which shows the current window UUID
#current window
first_tab = browser.window_handles[0]
#create new tab
browser.execute_script("window.open()")
#move to new tab
new_tab = browser.window_handles[1]
browser.switch_to.window(new_tab)
browser.get('https://gmail.com')
#switch to first tab
browser.switch_to.window(first_tab)
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Can a website detect when you are using Selenium with chromedriver?
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Closed 4 years ago.
What options do I set for chromedriver so that the web server cannot tells the browser is manually launched or programming launched using Selenium?
Thanks,
The Webserver you try to access has no way of knowing how the browser has been launched. It can only detect (or rather, guess) that it's an automated browser when said browser shows atypical behavior for a human (e.g. makes loads of requests per seconds, clicks 2 things with no delay whatsoever). Therefor it doesn't matter how you launch the browser - just how you use it.
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Log into gmail using Selenium in Python
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Closed 5 years ago.
I'm trying to automatically log into Gmail via a Python script. I'm using the selenium webdriver. I've managed to get my email entered but I don't know how to get my password entered as well. I've already checked past questions on here but the selectors mentioned in the answers don't seem to work. I keep getting an "Unable to locate element" error.
The code I tried:
driver.find_element_by_name("password").send_keys(pw)
You can use wait before if wanted otherwise you can achieve this simlply by ID
Gpassword = driver.find_element_by_id("password")
Gpassword.send_keys("xxxxxxxx")
This should be a comment but I don't have the 50 required rep.
I would try the GMail Python API. It should be a lot easier:
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart/python
Make sure the element name is correct
make sure the element is visible (not overlapped by another element. ex: by virtual keyboard (in mobile application) or by auto-complete box)
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python's webbrowser launches IE, instead of default browser, on Windows relative path
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Closed 8 years ago.
I want to google search a specific phrase using python program that too in a specific browser like Mozilla/google chrome.
import webbrowser
url = "https://www.google.com.tr/search?q={}".format("Raspberry Pi")
webbrowser.open(url)
I read this script in some post but it always go for the default browser in the system, can't i select or specify a different browser.
Use webbrowser.get('browser') to specify a browser.
import webbrowser
url = "https://www.google.com.tr/search?q={}".format("Raspberry Pi")
b = webbrowser.get('lynx')
b.open(url)