selenium-webdriver

UnreachableBrowserException Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException when “webdriver.firefox.marionette” is used

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Here is the Answer to your Question: The error UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure says it all. As per guru99.com it is mentioned to use webdriver.firefox.marionette within System.setProperty. In Selenium 3.x we would be using webdriver.gecko.driver instead. So consider changing … Read more

How do you click on a checkbox from a list of checkboxes via Selenium/Webdriver in Java?

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If you already know the id of the checkbox, you can use this method to click select it: string checkboxXPath = “//input[contains(@id, ‘lstCategory_0′)]” IWebElement elementToClick = driver.FindElement(By.XPath(checkboxXPath)); elementToClick.Click(); Assuming that you have several checkboxes on the page with similar ids, you may need to change ‘lstCategory_0’ to something more specific. This is written in C#, … Read more

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not visible while trying to access an element with Python + Selenium

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This error message… selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not visible …implies that the desired element was not visible within the HTML DOM while the WebDriver instance was trying to find it. ElementNotVisibleException ElementNotVisibleException is thrown when an element is present on the DOM Tree, but it is not visible, and so is not able to be interacted … Read more

How to find the coordinates of the buttons on a canvas, and click on them after using Java and Selenium?

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The <canvas> element is within an <iframe>. So to invoke click() on the elements within the <canvas> you have to: Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it. Induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable. You can use the following solution: Code Block: driver.get(“https://www.online-calculator.com/full-screen-calculator/”) new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt(By.id(“fullframe”))); WebElement … Read more

Logic Operators in WebDriverWait Expected Conditions

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Apart from clubbing up 2 expected_conditions through or clause, we can easily construct a CSS to take care of our requirement The following CSS will look either for the EC either in mobile_txt_holder class or in notfoundcopy class: element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until( EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, “.mobile_txt_holder, .notfoundcopy”)) You can find a detailed discussion in selenium two xpath … Read more

How to Conceal WebDriver in Geckodriver from BotD in Java?

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When using Selenium driven GeckoDriver initiated firefox Browsing Context The webdriver-active flag is set to true when the user agent is under remote control. It is initially false. where, webdriver returns true if webdriver-active flag is set, false otherwise. As: navigator.webdriver Defines a standard way for co-operating user agents to inform the document that it … Read more

How to open Chrome browser console through Selenium?

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To open chrome browser console you can use the ChromeOptions class with –auto-open-devtools-for-tabs argument as follows: Test Configuration: Selenium: Selenium Standalone Server v3.14.0 ChromeDriver: ChromeDriver 2.46.628402 Chrome: Google Chrome 72.0.3626.96 Code Block: import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions; public class A_Chrome_Browser_Console { public static void main(String[] args) { System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”, “C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe”); ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions(); … Read more

How to automate login to a site which is detecting my attempts to login using selenium-stealth

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Demo creds would have helped us to dig deeper into your specific usecase. However using selenium-stealth I was able to bypass the detection of Selenium driven ChromeDriver initiated google-chrome Browsing Context pretty easily. selenium4 compatible code Code Block: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service from selenium_stealth import stealth options … Read more

Accessing elements in the shadow DOM

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There’s no way to access the shadow root of native HTML 5 elements. Not useful in this case, but with Chrome it’s possible to access a custom created shadow root: var root = document.querySelector(“#test_button”).createShadowRoot(); root.innerHTML = “<button id=’inner_button’>Button in button</button” <button id=”test_button”></button> The root can then be accessed this way: var element = document.querySelector(“#test_button”).shadowRoot; If … Read more