selenium-auto-refresh 1.1.0

Automatically refresh Selenium Chrome tabs at specified intervals

Selenium Auto Refresh

Automatically refresh Selenium Chrome tabs at specified intervals. Perfect for keeping sessions alive during long-running automation tasks.

Features

• 🔄 Automatic page refresh at customizable intervals
• 🛡️ Error handling for failed refreshes
• 🎯 Compatible with all Selenium-based drivers
• 🔧 Context manager support
• 📊 Runtime interval changes
• 🪶 Lightweight with no dependencies

Installation

pip install selenium-auto-refresh

Quick Start

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium_auto_refresh import ChromeRefresher

# Setup your driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://example.com")

# Start auto-refresh every 60 seconds
refresher = ChromeRefresher(driver, interval=60)
refresher.start()

# Your automation code here...
time.sleep(300)  # Run for 5 minutes

# Stop auto-refresh
refresher.stop()
driver.quit()

Context Manager Usage

with ChromeRefresher(driver, interval=30) as refresher:
    # Auto-refresh starts automatically
    # Your automation code here...
    pass
# Auto-refresh stops automatically

Compatible Drivers

• ✅ Selenium WebDriver
• ✅ SeleniumBase Driver
• ✅ undetected-chromedriver
• ✅ Any driver with .refresh() method

API Reference

ChromeRefresher(driver, interval=60)

Parameters:

• driver: WebDriver instance with .refresh() method
• interval: Refresh interval in seconds (default: 60)

Methods:

• start(): Start auto-refresh
• stop(): Stop auto-refresh
• is_running(): Check if running
• change_interval(seconds): Change refresh interval

License

MIT License

## 5. Create tests:

```python:tests/test_refresher.py
import unittest
from unittest.mock import Mock, patch
import time
from selenium_auto_refresh import ChromeRefresher


class TestChromeRefresher(unittest.TestCase):
    
    def setUp(self):
        self.mock_driver = Mock()
        self.mock_driver.refresh = Mock()
    
    def test_init_valid_driver(self):
        refresher = ChromeRefresher(self.mock_driver, 30)
        self.assertEqual(refresher.interval, 30)
        self.assertFalse(refresher.running)
    
    def test_init_invalid_driver(self):
        invalid_driver = Mock()
        del invalid_driver.refresh
        
        with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
            ChromeRefresher(invalid_driver)
    
    def test_init_invalid_interval(self):
        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
            ChromeRefresher(self.mock_driver, -1)
    
    def test_start_stop(self):
        refresher = ChromeRefresher(self.mock_driver, 1)
        
        refresher.start()
        self.assertTrue(refresher.is_running())
        
        refresher.stop()
        self.assertFalse(refresher.is_running())
    
    def test_context_manager(self):
        with ChromeRefresher(self.mock_driver, 1) as refresher:
            self.assertTrue(refresher.is_running())
        self.assertFalse(refresher.is_running())


if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

6. Publish to PyPI:

# Install build tools
pip install build twine

# Build the package
python -m build

# Upload to PyPI (test first)
twine upload --repository testpypi dist/*

# Upload to PyPI (production)
twine upload dist/*