webdriver-selector

webdriver_selector is a module designed to make headless selenium testing with python easier. If you are on a system and just want the first available webdriver preconfigured with a random useragent and set in headless mode, or if you want to run a known prespecified webdriver for a given browser, this module can do that.

Installation:

pip3 install webdriver-selector

Usage

the selector class can be called with two arguments: chosendriver: the preferred webdriver, default to randomDriver force: if a randomDriver is preferred, it will force checking every available driver until it either exhausts all available browsers and returns None or returns a viable driver.

Attributes:

chosendriver -- the chosen driver

force -- whether or not to force getting a random driver

driver -- the selenium webdriver data selected, defaults to None

availablefunctions -- the list of tuples of available function names and their functions

finalfunctionstring -- a human readable string of available functions to choose from

headless -- Bool of either True or False which specifies if you'd like the browser to be headless or not, defaults to True

incognito -- Bool which specifies if you'd like to run the browser in incognito or private browsing mode, default True

random_useragent -- Bool which specifies if you'd like to run the browser with a randomized useragent or keep the one for the selected browser, default True

EXPERIMENTAL proxy_ip -- string of the ip address which you would want your browser to work through

proxy_port -- string of the port of the proxy you'd like to use. REQUIRED IF PROXY_IP IS SPECIFIED

Note this currently supports only HTTPS, unauthenticated proxies, and only seems to consistently work with Chrome based browsers. Examples:

##Getting the first available selenium webdriver on the system:
import webdriver_selector

driver=webdriver_selector.selector().driver

##selecting a particular webdriver:
import webdriver_selector

driver=webdriver_selector.selector(chosendriver="chrome").driver

Once you have a driver, it is simply now the selenium webdriver, with useage and documentation found here:

https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/