I’m working on a python script to web-scrape and have gone down the path of using Chromedriver as one of the packages. I would like this to operate in the background without any pop-up windows. I’m using the option ‘headless’ on chromedriver and it seems to do the job in terms of not s…
Tag: selenium
Run Multiple Instances of ChromeDriver
Using selenium and python I have several tests that need to run in parallel. To avoid using the same browser I added the parameter of using a specific profile directory and user data (see below). The problem is that I cannot run them simultaneously, one test needs to wait for the other to finish. Otherwise I …
python script is not able to invoke chrome driver on azure
When I am checking my automation script on azure which is trying to invoke chrome driver, it is giving me below error. Script is in python. Answer According to your error information, per my experience, I think you were using Azure App Services to try to drive a chrome you uploaded via webdriver to load some …
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘selenium’
I get an error while running this selenium script. Please suggest what can be done to fix this: Script: Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:/Users/admin/Desktop/test2.py”, line 2, in from selenium import webdriver ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘selenium’ I have ins…
Passing cookies while logging in
I would like to integrate python Selenium and Requests modules to authenticate on a website. I am using the following code: The problem is that when I enter the browser the login authentication is still there when I try to access the url even though I passed the cookies generated from the requests session. Ho…
How to automate Google PageSpeed Insights tests using Python
Is there a way to automate checking Google Page Speed scores? Answer So I figured out how to do this using the Google Page Speed API buried in the documentation. The TL:DR explanation is you can use the following URL setup, replacing the bracketed values after enabling Google Pagespeed API in Cloud Console (a…
Scroll in Selenium Webdriver (Python)
Prerequisites. You need an account at Instagram to use this script. Setup a test environment: Log in, open the needed list(works correctly): Wrong scroll. How to fix this block? How to focus and scroll correctly on this page? My attempts: ============================================================= to @Moshi…
Selenium webdriver functions are not showing in autosuggestion list pycharm
I have installed Python pip selenium pycharm. all works but I see that the autosuggestion box doesn’t show the web driver functions. is there a reason for this? Selenium is installed for project interpreter in pycharm This is how autosuggest list looks like And this is how i expect it to look like Answe…
Selenium leaves behind running processes?
When my selenium program crashes due to some error, it seems to leave behind running processes. For example, here is my process list: Here is my code: Sometimes, the browser doesn’t load the webpage elements quickly enough so Selenium crashes when it tries to click on something it didn’t find. Oth…
Selenium-Debugging: Element is not clickable at point (X,Y)
I try to scrape this site by Selenium. I want to click in “Next Page” buttom, for this I do: it works for many pages but not for all, I got this error always for this page I read this question and I tried this but I got the same error Answer Another element is covering the element you are