Selenium Python Tricks - GeeksforGeeks

Selenium: Selenium Python bindings provide a convenient API to access Selenium Web Driver like Firefox, Chrome, etc.

What is webdriver?
Selenium WebDriver is an automation testing tool. When I say automation, it means it automates test scripts written in Selenium.

Webdriver Install

Chrome:    https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

Library Imported

from selenium import webdriver
import time

(i) Selenium library:
– Used for Automation
– Control Webdriver
– Perform actions like – element clicks, refresh page, goto website link, etc

(ii) Time library:
-For using sleep function because selenium works only when the all the elements of the page is loaded.

Trick1: How to increase view count on a website?
#Note: This will not work on all websites, like youtube.
What we would be learning is to refresh the webpage again and again after a particular interval of time.

#!/usr / bin / env python 
from selenium import webdriver 
import time 
  
# set webdriver path here it may vary 
brower = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path ="C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\chromedriver.exe") 
  
website_URL ="https://www.google.co.in/"
brower.get(website_URL) 
  
# After how many seconds you want to refresh the webpage 
# Few website count view if you stay there 
# for a particular time 
# you have to figure that out 
refreshrate = int(15) 
  
# This would keep running until you stop the compiler. 
while True: 
    time.sleep(refreshrate) 
    brower.refresh() 

Trick2: How to login on a website, here we take example of Zomato

from selenium import webdriver 
# For using sleep function because selenium 
# works only when the all the elements of the 
# page is loaded. 
import time 
# webdriver path set 
browser = webdriver.Chrome("C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\chromedriver.exe") 
  
# To maximize the browser window 
browser.maximize_window() 
  
# zomato link set 
browser.get('https://www.zomato.com / ncr') 
  
time.sleep(3) 
# Enter your user name and password here. 
username = "test"
password = "test"
  
  
# signin element clicked 
browser.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@id ='signin-link']").click() 
time.sleep(2) 
  
# Login clicked 
browser.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@id ='login-email']").click() 
  
# username send 
a = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id ='ld-email']") 
a.send_keys(username) 
  
# password send 
b = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id ='ld-password']") 
b.send_keys(password) 
  
# submit button clicked 
browser.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id ='ld-submit-global']").click() 
  
print('Login Successful') 
browser.close() 

My Personal Notes

Recommended Posts: