selenium-pro 1.4.4

Automation Library

selenium pro - intelligent & powerful cloud native selenium

Benefits of selenium-pro over selenium

• All the capabilities of Selenium +
• Auto write scripts using Selenium Script Generator
• No Inspection of HTML Elements required
• Intelligent Element Handling Automatically in case of HTML changes
• Auto Setup Chromedrivers based on Operating System & Browser versions
• Run scripts in Cloud with single function call
• Bypass Automated Browser Detection
• Coming Up - Convert your old selenium scripts to selenium pro so that they never fail due to element errors

Selenium Pro Auto Code Generator Chrome Extension

• Install the extension in your browser
• Start Recording your actions like
  • Open Url
  • Click
  • Type
  • Scrape (right click on element & use scrape option)
  • etc.
• Selenium-Pro code will be generated automatically
• Copy it & run in your python shell

Installation

pip install selenium-pro

Import

If you already using selenium, just replace selenium with selenium_pro everywhere in your imports
If not, just use below lines to import

from selenium_pro.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium_pro import webdriver

Start Browser

This method starts automated window on your default browser. It installs all the drivers required

driver = webdriver.Start()

Example

Below script searches given keyword on google & scrapes result count

from selenium_pro.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium_pro import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Start()

# Open URL
driver.get('https://www.google.com/')

# Advanced method to click on search bar
driver.find_element_by_pro('QYQyyPtidm5_xqG').click_pro()

# Type in search bar
driver.switch_to.active_element.type('shoes\n')

# Advanced method to scrape result count
result_count=driver.find_element_by_pro('z6XMV66vxokYpfn').text
print('result_count ',result_count)

driver.quit()

find_element_by_pro() method

• This is one of the advanced methods added in this library aside from the conventional methods in selenium.
• This method finds element without you having to mention selectors or locators
• Also this ensures that whenever HTML element changes, its able to adapt to changes & work fine without you having to do any code change
• Use this Selenium Pro Auto Code Generator Chrome Extension to get pro-id for any element on the web

Find multiple similar elements

Just replace find_element with find_elements

find_elements_by_pro() method

It finds all elements similar to the element which you pointed in the extension
eg. Below script opens pypi search result link & fetches the titles of resulting packages

from selenium_pro.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium_pro import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Start()

# Open URL
driver.get("https://pypi.org/search/?q=firebase")

# Advanced Method to find all search results titles on the page
search_results_titles=driver.find_elements_by_pro("ErZwU_jOEg0s4_9")

# Loop over the list & print each text
for result_title in search_results_titles:
	print(result_title.text)

driver.quit()

Start() method

• This method will check your operating system, default browser & its version & install driver accordingly
• You can still use conventional methods if you want specific configuration

All Default Selenium Functions Work Well

#find elements by conventional methods
driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, '//button')

#close window
driver.close()

#set cookies in browser
driver.add_cookie({})

....

All your existing selenium scripts will work fine with selenium pro. Just import selenium pro instead

#from selenium import webdriver
from selenium_pro import webdriver
#from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium_pro.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait

## Old Selenium Code.....

Intermix Advanced & Conventional Methods

You can use both conventional & advanced methods in your scripts eg. Below code searches keyword on pypi & scrapes few details of package

from selenium_pro.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium_pro import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Start()

driver.get("https://pypi.org")

# Conventional method to click on search bar
driver.find_element_by_id('search').click()

driver.switch_to.active_element.type('datakund\n')

# Advanced method to click on 1st item in search results
driver.find_element_by_pro('NEHC72vwdxktcm5').click_pro()

# Conventional method to scrape title
title=driver.find_element_by_class_name('package-header__name').text
print('title ',title)

# Advanced method to scrape release_date
release_date=driver.find_element_by_pro('STT9vQuCT0fdEdq').text
print('release_date ',release_date)

# Advanced method to scrape author
author=driver.find_element_by_pro('gsANAnAvkCt7_aM').text
print('author ',author)

# Conventional method to scrape description
description=driver.find_element_by_class_name('package-description__summary').text
print('description ',description)

driver.quit()

Selenium Pro Auto Code Generator Chrome Extension

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