Control a web browser using python
Project description
Control a browser using python.
What do I need to use this?
Brow uses Selenium and headless Chrome or headless Firefox.
Installing Selenium python bindings
pip install selenium
Installing Firefox on Ubuntu using bash
These are the versions that I used:
$ firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 57.0 $ geckodriver --version geckodriver 0.19.1
First Install Firefox:
apt-get install --no-install-recommends firefox
Then you need the Gecko Driver:
LATEST=wget -O - https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/latest 2>&1 | grep "Location:" | grep --only-match -e "v[0-9\.]\+"
wget "https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/${LATEST}/geckodriver-${LATEST}-linux64.tar.gz"
tar -x geckodriver -zf geckodriver-${LATEST}-linux64.tar.gz -O > /usr/local/bin/geckodriver
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/geckodriver
Installing Chrome on Ubuntu using bash
These are the versions I used:
$ google-chrome --version Google Chrome 62.0.3202.94 $ chromedriver --version ChromeDriver 2.33.506092 (733a02544d189eeb751fe0d7ddca79a0ee28cce4)
apt-get install --no-install-recommends libxss1 libappindicator1 libindicator7
apt-get install --no-install-recommends gconf-service libasound2 libnspr4 libnss3-dev
apt-get install --no-install-recommends libpango1.0-0 xdg-utils fonts-liberation
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb
Now install the Chrome Driver:
apt-get install unzip
LATEST=$(wget -q -O - http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE)
wget http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/$LATEST/chromedriver_linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip && ln -s $PWD/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
You can verify Chrome headless works by running:
$ google-chrome --headless "http://marcyes.com"
If you didn’t get any errors then it is working.
I’ve installed a browser, now what do I do?
Then request something:
from brow.interface.selenium import FirefoxBrowser as Browser
#from brow.interface.selenium import ChromeBrowser as Browser
with Browser.session() as b:
b.load("http://marcyes.com")
print(b.body)
Installation
use pip:
$ pip install brow
Or be bleeding edge:
$ pip install --upgrade "git+https://github.com/Jaymon/brow#egg=brow"
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