I am running an app in the browser; and for some actions I was able to simulate actions with keystrokes; but I have a peculiar problem: some actions in my app cause system prompt to pop up, like for example for save or confirm quit.
Is there a way to control these in Selenium python? As example imagine to use keystroke to save a page; then the system dialog (which is not part of the web app), appear and ask you where to save the file. Or imagine the prompt that ask you if you are sure to close the browser window if you have multiple tabs open.
I did try to look for a different window, assuming that I can switch context between windows in the browser, but I find nothing beside the main app, because these are system windows. Is there a workaround for this?
If you are talking about system dialogs, then it's not possible to interact with them using selenium.
However, for browser popups (alerts), just navigate to the popup:
driver.switch_to_alert()
Then, use the methods from the Alert class to interact with the popup. The Alert class contains methods for dismissing, accepting, inputting, and getting text from alert prompts.
Some examples:
Alert(driver).accept()
Alert(driver).dismiss()
Alert(driver).authenticate()
Alert(driver).send_keys(keys_to_send)
Alert(driver).text()
see: https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/py/webdriver/selenium.webdriver.common.alert.html
You could make usage of the Selenium methods to check current window and move to another one:
You can use
driver.window_handles
to find a list of window handles and after try to switch using following methods (selenium documentation).
driver.switch_to_alert()
driver.switch_to.active_element
driver.switch_to.default_content
driver.switch_to.window
Since the application you work on, seems to respond to Selenium commands here it is a working example about opening a popup window, switching selenium scope on it, extract data and close the popup.
The process is repeated for all the products:
for item in driver.find_elements_by_class_name("products"):
item.click() # clicking on item activate a popup
driver.switch_to_alert() #switch to new window
# Get data
driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(".ui-dialog-titlebar-close.ui-corner-all")[0].click() #close window
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I am using the Playwright library to get data from a website. The issue is that website shows a popup when it open which results in stuck processes since the program is not able to get any button due to the popup.
Is there any way to close a popup each time it appears using the playwright?
Edit:
Page is creating a pop-up. I inspect the page and learnt that they are not using the modal for the pop instead they wrote the inline css and decorated a div as the popup.
Closing actual popups
I think browser.once("targetcreated", ...) as described in this issue https://stackoverflow.com/a/57246544/2202112 could be something that you are looking for.
It allows you to setup a callback on newly created targets.
For reference, see puppeteer docs on "targetcreated"
Closing modals
Find the selector for the button that dismisses the modal, for example .button-close or .button-dismiss.
Use the page.click(selector, [options]) method to click the button before continuing further scraping
As the documentation says Playwright will automatically dismiss all modal dialogs if there are no listeners of "dialog" event. Default behavior is essentially equivalent to
page.on('dialog', dialog => dialog.dismiss());
if it doesn't close in your case, it's most likely not a modal dialog (or a bug in playwright).
If the page opens another popup page, you can follow this guide but from your description it sounds more like a modal dialog.
Is there any way to determine which tab the user is viewing, like say the active tab (in selenium) is the last one and same for the user, then the user goes back to the first one, how do I know this with selenium?
From the information that has been gathered there seem to be no way to do this. What you can do is see if the current window is the active one using:
driver.execute_script("return document.visibilityState") === "visible"
But you cannot loop through the tabs and check this property since as soon as you change tab the tab you change to will also become the visible one.
While switching tabs you need to change Selenium's focus from one tab to other.
You can find a relevant detailed discussions in:
Open web in new tab Selenium + Python
How to switch window handles using Selenium and PythonHow to switch into Window using Index in
Selenium
Selenium may not have the focus on the tab you are currently visualizing. It's the user's discretion on which tab you want Selenium to focus.
You can always extract the current window handle on which Selenium have the focus using the current_window_handle attribute as follows:
print(driver.current_window_handle)
I was using a script to extract some data from the italian morningstar website and it was working fine. Although since few months, it is appearing a pop-up (caches) straight when I open the webpage.
I used to handle the pop-up by referencing the html element and close it. This method was working fine for a while, then I don't know why since few weeks ago every time I close the popup by accepting all the cookies and I browse into the webpage it continues to reappear (Even if I try to close the pop-up manually!).
If I navigate through Chrome, once I accept the cookies it stops showing, but with selenium webdriver if I accept the cookies the popup continues to show in the same internet session. I tried everything, including importing all the cookies from Chrome but nothing changed.
Do you have a suggestion?
Here is the pop-up showing
You can switch to pop up and close it if its a html popup. If its not, you must use some autoit/automac or something similar depending on the platform.
You coud try something like
public static void PopUp()
{
_webDriver.SwitchTo().Alert().Accept();
}
Here are my steps
1.Using selenium webdriver I am opening Edge
2.Then after click a link it opens popup security window. I am attaching a screenshot
3. I tried to switch that window using many different ways. It is not an alert because when I called for alert it says no such alerts are open.
I tried to call following but it gives error
window_after = driver.window_handles[1]
Following two lines gave me 1 handles:
handles = driver.window_handles
print("Number of handles ", len(handles))
Output:
Number of handles 1
if it is not alert, not a window, what is it? view source code does not print anything.
All i need is insert user name and password and then click "OK" button
I put the program for sleep 20 seconds and then manually selected the cursor to user name text box. The executed following code but it does nothing
ActionChains(driver).send_keys("Test").perform()
Side Note: Need answer for only for Microsoft Edge.
Selenium only works for browser automation. The Windows Security pop-up is an OS-level dialog and Selenium will not be able to recognize it. You could use third party tools like AutoIt with Selenium to automate non-browser based functionality. For the detailed steps, you could refer to this article.
How do I only display the screen of my webdriver in a specific case using selenium?
I only want to display the window to the user when the title of the page is for exemple "XXX", so then he type something one the window and than the window close again, and the robot continue making what he should make on background.
Is it possible?
Thanks,
No, its not possible.
Only way is to use several browsers.
As example:
run phantomJS(headless browser)
run do needed actions
run firefox, used perform login
copy cookies after login
paste cookies to phantomJS
close firefox