For a): from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException def check_exists_by_xpath(xpath): try: webdriver.find_element_by_xpath(xpath) except NoSuchElementException: return False return True For b): Moreover, you can take the XPath expression as a standard throughout all your scripts and create functions as above mentions for universal use. I recommend to use CSS selectors. I recommend not to mix/use “by id”, “by … Read more
CSS selectors perform far better than XPath selectors, and it is well documented in Selenium community. Here are some reasons: XPath engines are different in each browser, hence making them inconsistent Internet Explorer does not have a native XPath engine, and therefore Selenium injects its own XPath engine for compatibility of its API. Hence we … Read more
You could alternatively do: driver.findElements(By.id(“…”)).size() != 0 Which saves the nasty try/catch P.S.: Or more precisely by @JanHrcek here !driver.findElements(By.id(“…”)).isEmpty()
You can try to get the list of all elements with class = “content” by using find_elements_by_class_name: a = driver.find_elements_by_class_name(“content”) Then you can click on the link that you are looking for.
You are probably looking for get_attribute(). An example is shown here as well def test_chart_renders_from_url(self): url=”http://localhost:8000/analyse/” self.browser.get(url) org = driver.find_element_by_id(‘org’) # Find the value of org? val = org.get_attribute(“attribute name”)
It is actually possible to scroll automatically to element. Although this is not a good solution in this case (there must be a way to get it working without scrolling) I will post it as a workaround. I hope someone will come up with better idea… public void scrollAndClick(By by) { WebElement element = driver.findElement(by); … Read more
Create cookies using the Java API as follows: Cookie ck = new Cookie(“name”, “value”); driver.manage().addCookie(ck); Create cookies using the Python API as follows: driver.add_cookie({‘name’: ‘foo’, ‘value’: ‘bar’})
If you have pip installed you can install selenium like so. pip install selenium or depending on your permissions: sudo pip install selenium For python3: sudo pip3 install selenium As you can see from this question pip vs easy_install pip is a more reliable package installer as it was built to improve easy_install. I would … Read more
When you initiate the Test Execution through Selenium, normally the Browser is initiated in maximized mode. Now, to execute your program/script, Selenium needs the focus on the Browser Client which renders the HTML DOM. When the Test Execution is In Progress if an user manually forcefully minimizes the browser, Selenium would loose the focus and … Read more
Try this: from selenium import webdriver options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() options.add_experimental_option(“useAutomationExtension”, False) options.add_experimental_option(“excludeSwitches”,[“enable-automation”]) driver_path=”/Users/myuser/Downloads/chromedriver” driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=driver_path, chrome_options=options) driver.get(‘https://google.com’) driver.close()