Python bindings for Selenium
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Introduction
Python language bindings for Selenium WebDriver.
The selenium package is used automate web browser interaction from Python.
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Several browsers/drivers are supported (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, PhantomJS), as well as the Remote protocol.
Supported Python Versions
Python 2.6, 2.7
Python 3.2, 3.3
Installing
If you have pip on your system, you can simply install or upgrade the Python bindings:
pip install -U selenium
Alternately, you can download the source distribution from PyPI (e.g. selenium-2.38.tar.gz), unarchive it, and run:
python setup.py install
Note: both of the methods described above install selenium as a system-wide package That will require administrative/root access to ther machine. You may consider using a virtualenv to create isolated Python environments instead.
Example 0:
open a new Firefox browser
load the page at the given URL
from selenium import webdriver browser = webdriver.Firefox() browser.get('http://seleniumhq.org/')
Example 1:
open a new Firefox browser
load the Yahoo homepage
search for “seleniumhq”
close the browser
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys browser = webdriver.Firefox() browser.get('http://www.yahoo.com') assert 'Yahoo!' in browser.title elem = browser.find_element_by_name('p') # Find the search box elem.send_keys('seleniumhq' + Keys.RETURN) browser.quit()
Example 2:
Selenium WebDriver is often used as a basis for testing web applications. Here is a simple example uisng Python’s standard unittest library:
import unittest class GoogleTestCase(unittest.TestCase): def setUp(self): self.browser = webdriver.Firefox() self.addCleanup(self.browser.quit) def testPageTitle(self): self.browser.get('http://www.google.com') self.assertIn('Google', self.browser.title) if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main(verbosity=2)
Selenium Server (optional)
For normal WebDriver scripts (non-Remote), the Java server is not needed.
However, to use Selenium Webdriver Remote or the legacy Selenium API (Selenium-RC), you need to also run the Selenium server. The server requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
Download the server separately, from: http://selenium.googlecode.com/files/selenium-server-standalone-2.38.0.jar
Run the server from the command line:
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.38.0.jar
Then run your Python client scripts.
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