perftracker-cp-crawler 0.1.3

Python package with the perftracker control panels crawler

perftracker-cp-crawler

perftracker-cp-crawler - a set of libraries and scripts to crawl web UI Control Panels (like Wordpress), integrated with the perftracker

Features

• selenium-based framework (on top of Chrome and Firefox browsers)
• python-based browser simulators
• page response time measurement
• individual HTTP request response time measurement
• export results to the perftracker server
• browser memory consumption tracking
• automatic login/logout with customizable:
  • login, password and submit buttons xpath/id/class names
  • automatic menu items recognition with customizsable:
  • menu item xpath
  • sub-menu item xpath
• page rendering phases recognition:
  • browser timing interface support
  • ajax request completion based on browser logs and pending HTTP requests
  • HTTP requests whitelisting to bypass websockets and long polls completion wait
• advanced reporting:
  • waterfall based requests view with information about requests size, compression, duration, status, etc
  • pages summary
  • HTML report with pages screenshot

Installation

MacOS

pip install -r requirements.txt
brew cask install chromedriver
chromedriver --version
brew cask install google-chrome
# install Google Chrome

Linux

pip install -r requirements.txt
yum install https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
yum install chromedriver

Examples

Run selenium-based test on a real WordPress Admin panel:

python3 ./examples/pt-wp-crawler.py -m -U user -P user https://demo.wpjobboard.net/wp-login.php

Contributing a patch

Make a change and test your code before commit:

python ./test.py