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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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Is there a way to use Selenium WebDriver without informing the document that it is controlled by WebDriver?
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Closed 1 year ago.
I am trying to interact with a webpage that has strong bot detection measures. This means I cannot use things like Requests, Scrapy or Selenium as they get detected. Even Undetected Chromedriver doesn't work.
I just need to perform a few simple clicks on the site so am trying to implement something using Pyautogui.
However, I still need to find whether certain elements exist. Is there a way of doing this without using those libraries?
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How to capture network traffic with selenium
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Closed 2 years ago.
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 to get rid of the infobar "Chrome is being controlled by automated test software" through Selenium
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Unable to hide "Chrome is being controlled by automated software" infobar within Chrome v76
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I am a beginner with Selenium. I can not seem to disable the "AutomationControlled" flag in Chrome. according to this article: https://piprogramming.org/articles/How-to-make-Selenium-undetectable-and-stealth--7-Ways-to-hide-your-Bot-Automation-from-Detection-0000000017.html#:~:text=%207%20Ways%20to%20hide%20your%20Bot%20Automation,you%20if%20you%20are%20using%20Linux...%20More%20, there are 2 main ways of doing this. One of them can be done before instantiating the driver so that not even Chrome knows that is is being controlled by Selenium. This is the one I am interested in, but I can not get it to work.
Here is what I have:
from selenium import webdriver
option = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
option.add_argument('--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled')
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='chromedriver.exe',options=option)
I dont get any errors with this but Chrome sure knows it is being controlled by Selenium bc the banner shows along the top of the browser. I have tried to confirm if the flag AutomationControlled is set but I cannot find where I can check this. I am running Chromedriver 87. something.
Any help is appreciated.
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Python Windows Authentication username and password is not working
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I'm trying to automate the login of my college website but the site is behaving kinda awkward nowadays. It is showing an alert for signing(which doesn't work though) and the link keeps on loading. When the alert is canceled then the site loads completely.
I'm using selenium and the next line to driver.get method only executes if the site is loaded completely.
the link is https://learn.upes.ac.in/
user this method to dismiss the popup prompt and continue with your (normal) method of login.
driver.switch_to_alert().dismiss()
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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")