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How to click Allow on Show Notifications popup using Selenium Webdriver

Please Follow below steps : A) USING JAVA : For Old Chrome Version (<50): //Create a instance of ChromeOptions class ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions(); //Add chrome switch to disable notification – “**–disable-notifications**” options.addArguments(“–disable-notifications”); //Set path for driver exe System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”,”path/to/driver/exe”); //Pass ChromeOptions instance to ChromeDriver Constructor WebDriver driver =new ChromeDriver(options); For New Chrome Version (>50): … Read more

Is there a version of Selenium WebDriver that is not detectable?

The fact that selenium driven WebDriver gets detected doesn’t depends on any specific Selenium, Chrome or ChromeDriver version. The Websites themselves can detect the network traffic and can identify the Browser Client i.e. Web Browser as WebDriver controled. However some generic approaches to avoid getting detected while web-scraping are as follows: The first and foremost … Read more

Selenium: Check for the presence of element

There are two cases to account for: Is the element present; meaning does it exist in the DOM. Is the element visible; meaning it is in DOM and does not have a hidden or equivalent flag. For the first case, I use the following helper method: this.waitForElement = function(locator) { browser.wait(function() { return browser.isElementPresent(locator); }, … Read more

Error [SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: 20.000 while executing the testsuite through Selenium on Jenkins

This error message… [30.168][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: 20.000 …implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate a new Chrome browser process. Your main issue is the version compatibility between the binaries you are using as follows : You are using chromedriver=2.33 Release Notes of chromedriver=2.33 clearly mentions the following : Supports Chrome … Read more

Can Selenium WebDriver open browser windows silently in the background?

If you are using Selenium web driver with Python, you can use PyVirtualDisplay, a Python wrapper for Xvfb and Xephyr. PyVirtualDisplay needs Xvfb as a dependency. On Ubuntu, first install Xvfb: sudo apt-get install xvfb Then install PyVirtualDisplay from PyPI: pip install pyvirtualdisplay Sample Selenium script in Python in a headless mode with PyVirtualDisplay: #!/usr/bin/env … Read more

Which ChromeDriver version is compatible with which Chrome Browser version?

After 2.46, the ChromeDriver major version matches Chrome chromedriver chrome 76.0.3809.68 76 75.0.3770.140 75 74.0.3729.6 74 73.0.3683.68 73 It seems compatibility is only guaranteed within that revision. If you need to run chromedriver across multiple versions of chrome for some reason, well, plug the latest version number of chrome you’re using into the Chromedriver version … Read more

How to inspect element for Selenium v3.6 as FireBug is not an option any more for FF 56?

If you visit the GitHub Page of FirePath, it clearly mentions that : FirePath is a Firebug extension that adds a development tool to edit, inspect and generate XPath expressions and CSS3 Selectors Now if you visit the Home Page of FireBug, it clearly mentions that : The Firebug extension isn’t being developed or maintained … Read more

Selenium WebDriver 3.4.0 + geckodriver 0.18.0 + Firefox ?? – which combination works?

This Question have been surfacing out quite often for sometime now since we migrated from the legacy Firefox releases to Marionette based Mozilla Firefox releases (beginning with Firefox 48). In general, each GeckoDriver release supports each version of Mozilla Firefox releases (beginning with Firefox 48) where the property marionette needs to be set to true … Read more

Headless Browser and scraping – solutions [closed]

If Ruby is your thing, you may also try: https://github.com/chriskite/anemone (dev stopped) https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize https://github.com/postmodern/spidr https://github.com/stewartmckee/cobweb http://watirwebdriver.com/ (Selenium) also, Nokogiri gem can be used for scraping: http://nokogiri.org/ there is a dedicated book about how to utilise nokogiri for scraping by packt publishing