Hi i want to use selenium to open Internet Explorer-11 as different user. I have done a search and it show that it is possible but with Java, I am using Python so I am wondering is it possible with Internet Explorer webdriver or not.
For example if you right click on internet explorer, it will have the part sign in as different user. I want to automate that part with python IE webdriver, but I do not know how to do it.
what I am asking is similar to this post How to impersonate a specific user with Selenium Webdriver?
but I want to do it in Python with selenium webdriver
To be clear. I know how to open the webrowser with selenium and i know how to sign in with selenium (when there is a pop up window). But I am asking about how to let selenium know that I want to sign in as different user. Because if I just open my browswer normally there is no pop up for sign in.
from selenium import webdriver
driver=webdriver.Ie()
Thank you
You can use Selenium Web Driver.
Learning about it you can do what you need with a code similar to this:
username = selenium.find_element_by_id("username")
password = selenium.find_element_by_id("password")
username.send_keys("YourUsername")
password.send_keys("yourPa55worD")
selenium.find_element_by_name("submit").click()
Since it seems you want to use another OS user, I suggest you use Sikuli:
Sikuli automates anything you see on the screen. It uses image recognition to identify and control GUI components. It is useful when there is no easy access to a GUI's internal or source code.
I think there is no way to do what you are wanting with just Selenium. If you need to integrate Selenium and Sikuli, you can see this post on SOF: Calling to a Sikuli script from Python (Selenium) . It can give some ideas for you.
I hope it helps.
Download IE Drivers based on your OS (Windows 32 or 64 bit)
a. Download
Windows 32 bits driver
OR
b. Download Windows 64 bits driver
Extract the zip and copy IEDriverServer.exe file to some location e.g. E:\IEDriver
Write the following script
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Ie("e:\\IEDriver\\IEDriverServer.exe")
send values your inputs 'username' and 'password' and submit.
Run the script, it should open IE browser...
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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.
This is the site that I want to login into: https://nid.naver.com/nidlogin.login
When I tried to log in this site using selenium webdriver, it showed CAPTCHA.
But when I type id/pw by myself, keyboard typing, the CAPTCHA didn't show up!
How can selenium driver be detected?
It depends on your driver. Chromedriver does set specific js variables when it starts the browser. I'm sure other driver vendors have something similar. So, in short, yes. There are different ways it can determine that you are running via webdriver.
The problem: I want to write a Python script that takes a screenshot of a website I have opened in a browser each time it loads.
The thing is that I have a website where there are like 300 exam questions which I can get through, try each one of them and I will have the correction when I submit my answer. I will not have access to this questionnaire after a certain date, but I want to keep the questions (which I could write down, but laziness is strong in me, and want to learn Python).
The "attempt": I thought of doing a simple Python script with imgkit to take the screenshots. I'm opened to other suggestions, as imgkit was the first thing I saw while looking for this, and the code looks plain and simple to me:
import imgkit
imgkit.from_url('http://webpage.com', 'out.jpg')
But I have to provide the url for each webpage, and that will be more tedious than taking a screenshot with OS features, thus I want to automatize it.
The questions:
There is a way to make Python monitor a browser tab and take a screenshot each time it reloads (that will be when a new question appears)?
Or maybe get the tab's URL to pass it to imgkit and take the screenshot.
Another thing that I saw is that imgkit can generate a "screenshot" from a HTML file. Can Python download the HTML code from a tab I have open in my browser?
Selenium is your friend here. It is a framework designed for testing but it will make what you want really easy.
Selenium allows you to spin-up a web browser and control it. So you can instruct it to go to the web address you want and then do things. Normally you would instruct it to click here, write in a form, etc.
In your case you only want it to open a certain address, take a screenshot, go the the next address and repeat.
Here you have a tutorial on how to do exactly what you want.
The specific code is:
from selenium import webdriver
#1. Get the driver to manage the web-browser you choose
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
#2. Go the the webadress you want
driver.get('https://python.org')
#3. Take a screenshot
driver.save_screenshot("screenshot.png")
driver.close()
PS: In order for the tutorial to run you will need to have installed the web driver for Selenium to be able to spin-up and run Chrome. Here are the instructions for that.
I'm experimenting with Firefox's WebDriver and I'd like to ask if it is possible to handle "Download" window (to accept or decline incoming download request)?
For example, simple piece of code:
import selenium.firefox.webdriver
dr = selenium.firefox.webdriver.WebDriver()
# Firefox is showed up.
# Let's say I'd want to download python.
dr.get('http://python.org/ftp/python/3.1.3/python-3.1.3.msi')
# Download window is showed up.
# How could I accept the download request?
# As I understand, the method below should return
# two handles but I get only main window's handle.
handles = dr.get_window_handles()
# Seems like WebDriver cannot "see" this popup.
I've experimented with this a little bit but haven't found the solution yet. I'd really appreciate any hint.
Many thanks,
- V
One solution to this is changing WebDriver's Firefox profile to automatically download some MIME types to a given directory.
I'm not sure how (or if) this is exposed in Python, but it's mentioned on the Ruby bindings page on the Selenium wiki (under "Tweaking Firefox preferences").
I don't think that this is the sort of thing that WebDriver was built for, but I'll take a crack at it. There is nothing built into the Firefox WebDriver to handle this specific case, but there are a few approaches you may take.
You can open FF with the profile that your WebDriver script uses and edit the preferences to always save the file instead of asking (Options > Applications > Windows Installer Package - set to "Save File"). Now, however, there's no way to tell that the file is downloading from the browser unless you get redirected to a 404 page. If not, you can check if the file exists in the Downloads directory for the same profile (Options > Main > Donwloads). If it's still in the process of downloading, the filename will be WhateverFileName.ext.part
Your other option is to use the non-visual HTMLUnit driver, navigate to the download link, click it, and the get the page source (will be the contents of the file). This works with textual files, I can't guarantee that it will work similarly for binaries, nor do I know how it will be encoded in such a case.
Best of luck
i came across this when i was trying to download a file using capybara
and got halted by the download prompt
SeleniumHQ : Selenium WebDriver
profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
profile['browser.download.dir'] = "/Downloads"
profile['browser.download.folderList'] = 2
profile['browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk'] = "audio/wav"
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox, :profile => profile
driver.navigate.to('http://www.address.com/file.wav')
this just downloads the file into the directory specified, no prompt :)
the other option that i came across was
Determining file MIME types to autosave using Firefox & Watir-WebDriver
i have tried watir before and it proved very useful
I'm not sure how to find this information, I have found a few tutorials so far about using Python with selenium but none have so much as touched on this.. I am able to run some basic test scripts through python that automate selenium but it just shows the browser window for a few seconds and then closes it.. I need to get the browser output into a string / variable (ideally) or at least save it to a file so that python can do other things on it (parse it, etc).. I would appreciate if anyone can point me towards resources on how to do this. Thanks
using Selenium Webdriver and Python, you would simply access the .page_source property to get the source of the current page.
for example, using Firefox() driver:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('http://www.example.com/')
print(driver.page_source)
driver.quit()
There's a Selenium.getHtmlSource() method in Java, most likely it is also available in Python. It returns the source of the current page as string, so you can do whatever you want with it
Ok, so here is how I ended up doing this, for anyone who needs this in the future..
You have to use firefox for this to work.
1) create a new firefox profile (not necessary but ideal so as to separate this from normal firefox usage), there is plenty of info on how to do this on google, it depends on your OS how you do this
2) get the firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2704/ (this automatically saves all pages for a given domain name), you need to configure this to save whichever domains you intend on auto-saving.
3) then just start the selenium server to use the profile you created (below is an example for linux)
cd /root/Downloads/selenium-remote-control-1.0.3/selenium-server-1.0.3
java -jar selenium-server.jar -firefoxProfileTemplate /path_to_your_firefox_profile/
Thats it, it will now save all the pages for a given domain name whenever selenium visits them, selenium does create a bunch of garbage pages too so you could just delete these via a simple regex parsing and its up to you, from there how to manipulate the saved pages