selenium

Is there any way to start with a POST request using Selenium?

If you are using Python selenium bindings, nowadays, there is an extension to selenium – selenium-requests: Extends Selenium WebDriver classes to include the request function from the Requests library, while doing all the needed cookie and request headers handling. Example: from seleniumrequests import Firefox webdriver = Firefox() response = webdriver.request(‘POST’, ‘url here’, data={“param1”: “value1”}) print(response)

Need to find element in selenium by css

Only using class names is not sufficient in your case. By.cssSelector(“.ban”) has 15 matching nodes By.cssSelector(“.hot”) has 11 matching nodes By.cssSelector(“.ban.hot”) has 5 matching nodes Therefore you need more restrictions to narrow it down. Option 1 and 2 below are available for css selector, 1 might be the one that suits your needs best. Option … Read more

Selenium and non-headless browser keeps asking for Captcha

In the discussion entitled How does recaptcha 3 know I’m using selenium/chromedriver we have discussed about some generic approaches to avoid getting detected while web-scraping. Let’s deep dive. Headless Browser A headless browser is a browser that can be used without a graphical interface. It can be controlled programmatically to automate tasks, such as doing … Read more

How to turn off w3c in chromedriver to address the error unknown command: Cannot call non W3C standard command while in W3C

First the solution As promised by John Chen [Owner – WebDriver for Google Chrome] yesterday, new versions of ChromeDriver 75.0.3770.90 and 76.0.3809.25 have been released, and are now available at the ChromeDriver Downloads site. These versions include the following bug fixes over the previous releases of ChromeDriver 75 and 76: Fixed a bug that incorrectly … Read more

How to install extension permanently in geckodriver

Note: OP didn’t specify a language, so this answer is for Python. The other Selenium WebDriver language bindings have similar mechanisms for creating profiles and adding extensions. You can install the Extension each time you instantiate the driver. First, download the extension (XPI file) you want from: https://addons.mozilla.org. Then, in your code… create a FirefoxProfile() … Read more

How to download an image using Selenium (any version)?

I prefer doing something like this : 1. Get the SRC attribute of the image. 2. Use ImageIO.read to read the image onto a BufferedImage 3. Save the BufferedImage using ImageIO.write function For e.g. String src = imgElement.getAttribute(‘src’); BufferedImage bufferedImage = ImageIO.read(new URL(src)); File outputfile = new File(“saved.png”); ImageIO.write(bufferedImage, “png”, outputfile);