I wrote a little download manager in python, and now i want to "catch" downloads from Chrome Firefox and Explorer so they will download with it, instead of each built-in download manager of the browser itself.
I want to know when each of the browsers are starting a file download, so i can prevent the default behavior and use my own manager. All i need to start a download myself is the file url of course.
I know that in the past there were popular download managers such as "Get Right" that did exactly this. I want to do something similar.
Any ideas how would i go about doing this?
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I am trying to create a windows based application using eel. I want it to start in any available browser in the system of the user. How can I do it ? ( consider that user have not installed chrome in his system )
You can pass in mode='default' to the eel.start function, and it will try to open the system's default browser. Something like this:
eel.start('index.html', mode='default')
In this case, behind-the-scenes Eel will be proxying the open request to Python's webbrowser.open function, so it's best to check there if you want to know the logic being used. Or you can look at the Python source file for webbrowser.py on your machine... on Windows it would be located somewhere like: C:\Python39\Lib\webbrowser.py.
Maybe it's too late for you, I had the same problem. So to resolve it you have open your folder with code source of eel and open init.py and change browser option.
I'm trying to write a python executable that runs in the background and records the amount of time I spend on facebook. This is one of my first projects in software development. The problem is, I haven't found a way to access the chrome browser and look at what URL's are open.
I've used selenium webdriver, but it seems to only be able to open up new tabs.
I've found some kind of google extension called google tabs api, but i'm not entirely sure if it even is a library I can import into python or if it's even meant for python.
What is an easy(simple/clean) way to add few steps to interact with windows based elements within python selenium script?
eg:
Click a download button via selenium driver, change the file name and location and click save button on windows dialog.
Note:
Downloads button is just an example. I pretty much want to know a common way to handle any kind of items.
I do not want a way where they recommend a way to configure browser such that downloads happen automatically at a specific location on our system.
Way to execute my scenario:
Keep this setting turned ON in chrome.
Ask where to save each file before downloading.
Website to try - https://www.seleniumhq.org/download/.
Try downloading anything.
There is a project called Winium, remote driver implementation of Selenium for automating desktop applications. This could help you with this job.
You can spy ui using Inspect.
Find the samples at https://github.com/2gis/Winium.Desktop/wiki/Magic-Samples
Try to use AUTO It, it will be useful in Interacting with windows based applications in selenium.
Check out here - https://www.guru99.com/use-autoit-selenium.html
Hope This Helps You.
I finished up some python tutorials and would like to go a bit further. I can open the IDLE and execute the code just fine by pressing f5 (save and run) on my desktop but that is the limit of my abilities. I would like to be able to execute the programs on a webpage
I tried simply uploading the file to my server, then browsing to it in chrome. I'm sure you know what happened: the url displayed text on the screen.
Since I am brand new to python, I am not sure where to start or even what questions to ask. Basically I would like to run the program in the browswer as if the browswer was the IDLE, or better yet, create an html/css button that runs the program when clicked.
I'd advise you to look into something like flask. It's a micro-framework that includes a basic web server. The documentation should get you most of the way that you want to go.
Running python on the web usually means that when you hit an URL, the server runs some kind of python script, and returns a string - the HTML content of the page you're requesting. You can't use python to 'script' the webpage as you'd use javascript.
You can run python in an interactive interpreter running within a webpage though - just check out try ipython.
Flask is good.
Cherrypy - http://www.cherrypy.org/ - is also a great choice for a really simple way to run python on the server.
Fundamentally, you just configure your web server to execute the file instead of display it. Typically you set this for *.py files but you could restrict it, say, to files in a particular directory. Apparently, your server already has such a setting for PHP files.
Wrapping Python with PHP (obviously) adds neither speed nor security or utility.
Down the line you might want to look at frameworks, mod_python, WSGI, etc, but for your immediate problem, those are severe overkill.
This is limited to static server-side code; JavaScript runs interactively in the visitor's browser, allowing for much richer user interaction. A server-side script runs when the browser attempts to load the page, and the page load finishes when the script is done. If you want something like IDLE in your browser, that's a JavaScript challenge rather than a Python task (and that particular wheel has already been invented, productized, marketed, and sold to the Americans: http://pythonfiddle.com/)
like this:
python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen("http://localhost:8000/test.py").read()"
I am trying to make a download manager for Linux just like Internet Download Manager.
I wanted to know how does IDM integrate with the browsers without using any Extensions (Chrome) or Add-Ons (Firefox)
Also if i could know about the Overlay we say during a Video on the Browser (Download this Video).
Thanks in Advance.
I'm fairly certain that such program do use extensions and addons.
In fact I had a quick look at IDM which you mentioned, and it contains IDMGCExt.crx (chrome extension) and a idmmzcc.xpi (firefox addon), and some of the dlls are probably windows shell- and IE-extensions...
The only other way I can think of would be to write a NPAPI-plugin, which would cover a lot of compatible browsers at once, but writing a program that interacts with a browser without any of these won't be possible with today's browsers.