How to use Selenium with PHP?

facebook/php-webdriver is an awesome client for selenium and php. You can use it to automate web tasks (as the OP wanted), or you can simply integrate php-webdriver to your testing framework. There are some project already providing this: Steward integrates php-webdriver directly to PHPUnit. Codeception testing framework provides BDD-layer on top of php-webdriver. You can … Read more

Why can’t I access ‘window’ in an exposeFunction() function with Puppeteer?

evaluate the function You can pass the dynamic script using evaluate. (async function(){ var puppeteer = require(‘puppeteer’); const browser = await puppeteer.launch(); const page = await browser.newPage(); var functionToInject = function(){ return window.navigator.appName; } var data = await page.evaluate(functionToInject); // <– Just pass the function console.log(data); // outputs: Netscape await browser.close(); })() addScriptTag and readFileSync … Read more

Difference of Headless browsers for automation

Browser A Browser is an application program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web. Technically a Browser, alternatively referred as a Web Browser or Internet Browser, is a client program that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) to make requests of Web servers throughout the … Read more

How to extract a JSON object that was defined in a HTML page javascript block using Python?

BeautifulSoup is an html parser; you also need a javascript parser here. btw, some javascript object literals are not valid json (though in your example the literal is also a valid json object). In simple cases you could: extract <script>‘s text using an html parser assume that window.blog… is a single line or there is … Read more

Headless browser detection

There is a headless browser detection test which tests for the following: Does the User-Agent contain the string “HeadlessChrome”? Is navigator.webdriver set? Is window.chrome unset? Does the browser skip asking for permissions (like notifications)? Are browser plugins unavailable? Is navigator.languages unset? If your browser answers any of these questions with yes, then you fail the … Read more