glance_dom 0.11.5

Quickly reference DOM elements with minimal inspection.

Quickly reference DOM elements with minimal inspection.

To learn more about Glance DOM visit the Glance Website.

Installation

Installation requires pip:

pip install glance-dom

Usage

Instantiate Glance DOM using a browser driver (for example, WebDriver).

from selenium import webdriver
from glance_dom import GlanceDom

def test_glance():
    driver = webdriver.Firefox()
    driver.get('http://quasimatic.org/glance')

    # Using the old way
    languages = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('h2#other-languages + ul > li')

    # Using Glance
    glance = GlanceDom(driver)
    languages = glance.get_element('Other Languages > li')

    print(languages.text)

You can also get a list of matching elements using get_elements

Exceptions

get_element will raise NoReferenceError if the reference did not match any elements. Similarly it will raise TooBroadReferenceError it there are more than one match.