I can’t click the blue add extension in Firefox.
I am wanting to install an addon in Selenium Firefox. As far as I can tell the following CSS is changing:
.install-wrapper > div:nth-child(1) > div:nth-child(1)
However, Selenium just does nothing.
The Add button you have pictured is not part of the page. It's a browser specific dialog and cannot be clicked with Selenium. The quick way to tell this is to right-click on the dialog and see if you see the Inspect option in the context menu. If you don't see it, then it's not part of the page and isn't accessible using Selenium. You might try the keyboard shortcut, ALT+A.
Selenium can only automate Web based applications. Here, you are trying to automate an element in the WebBrower which is a stand alone application installed in your system. If I were using java to write the test script here, I would use selenium to automate the WebApplications and if I encounter any popups on the the Browser, I would try using java classes.
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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.
I want to automate the testing for a chrome-extension.
I have used selenium-python to automate the parent web-page , but i am unable to use selenium to automate the chrome-extension because selenium is bound to the web-page view,so i am not able to click the chrome extension icon present in the title bar of the google chrome. Due to this limitation, i tried using sikuli to click on the chrome-extension icon ,but i couldn't get the DOM of the chrome-extension popup HTML that appear when the extension's icon is clicked, as i had to access the text displayed by the extension's pop up html page and then evaluated it.My test failed.
I thought i could use shift_to_window() but in vain,because its a pop up html, and hence i cant shift.If instead i use sikuli ,as the test cases increased , the amount of pictures needed to automate it will also increase, so it won't be feasible.
Sample Screenshot,
In this picture,the web-store page is the parent page and the small popup in the right top corner,is the pop-up i am talking about, that appear after clicking the chrome extension . So basically i have to interact with that popup HTML.
I didn't quite understand why you can't automate whatever webpage you have with Selenium and what is the limitation you are describing. Perhaps an example such as screenshot or even a link to the relevant webpage can help. Furthermore, I don't understand why do being unable to extract DOM from a page is a limitation while using Sikuli. Sikuli has nothing to gain from the DOM, it purely based on visual content of the screen.
I would attempt to handle the popup you are describing using using standard Selenium functionality so something like this:
driver.switchTo().alert().dismiss();
There are additional alert handling options so you can choose what suits you most.
My requirement is:
Go to Chrome
Right click and select option. For example I need to click Reload or Back option in pop up
Do the above operation in both, local and a remote PC via Selenium Grid
I was able to achieve the above task using sendkeys, but sendkeys are only working for current active window. Suppose I started my test on my local PC. On my local PC right click and select option are working.
But on my remote PC, right click alone working but sendkeys.ARROW_DOWN or sendKeys.ENTER are not working there.
Please suggest a solution.
I don't know python implementation of selenium driver, but in c# there is a INavigation object that allows you to perform navigation actions (go back, go forward, refresh)
INavigation navigation = driver.Navigate();
navigation.Back();
navigation.Refresh();
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.
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.