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Selenium with Python (gui/browser automation)

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pip install selenium

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notes:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

browser = webdriver. (‘PATH’)
browser.get(‘url’)
elem = browser.find_element_by_link_text(‘Download’)
elem.text
>>> ‘Download’
elem.get_attribute(‘href’)
>>> ‘url’
elem.click()
searchBar = browser.find_element_by_id(‘q’) [inspect element]

searchBar.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)


about:profiles

-> basics:

import os
from selenium import webdriver
# from selenium.webdriver.firefox.webdriver import FirefoxProfile {: id="from-selenium.webdriver.firefox.webdriver-import-firefoxprofile" }

fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()


fp.set_preference("browser.download.folderList",2)
fp.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting",False)
fp.set_preference("browser.download.dir", os.getcwd())
fp.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk","text/csv")

browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp) # or driver  {: id="or-driver" }
browser.get('[https://www.sample-videos.com/download-sample-csv.php')](https://www.sample-videos.com/download-sample-csv.php'))
browser.implicitly_wait(3)

button = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@href='csv/Sample-Spreadsheet-10-rows.csv']")
button.click()

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