With Robot Framework and its Selenium Library, I need to open specifically Firefox, get to a repository on GitLab and download a certain file. Please don't question the tool choice, I was asked to do this with Robot on Firefox and I have to do it with Robot on Firefox. Nothing crazy on the surface actually, but I found out that GitLab runs a "check" on the browser and apparently Selenium gets stuck.
I've searched for solutions, but they all apply to either Selenium on Java, Python, etc., and most of them are about Chrome. Only a handful of unclear ones talk about Firefox and none about Robot with Selenium. I've tried to adapt some of them, such as the following:
SeleniumLibrary.Open Browser browser=firefox
... ff_profile_dir=set_preference("dom.webdriver.enabled","false");set_preference("useAutomationExtension","false")
SeleniumLibrary.Go To ${UrlGitLab}
But it doesn't work. It's still stuck on the page
Checking your browser before accessing gitlab.com.
This process is automatic. Your browser will redirect to your
requested content shortly.
Please allow up to 5 seconds…
It looks like it tries to reload (?) a couple of times, but it won't go further.
Is there a solution, or a workaround that doesn't completely ditch Robot + Selenium with Firefox?
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I am trying to scrape a website, but it is not loading in selenium. When I browse that website in my "real" chrome browser, everything works fine. Is there any way I can use my real browser with python to automate stuff, instead of using selenium??
Thanks
Using selenium we can automate real browsers.
If in case the website is not loading via selenium, you can check if adding desired capabilities helps.
Here we can set proxy, disable extensions etc. There are many options available.
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/capabilities
Also if you can share what kind of error is displayed that would be helpful.
Currently i am automating the Desktop Application using CodedUI tests.
I am facing some challenges, there are inside Desktop application we having Chromium browser concept. Unable to record the chromium browser element and getting the element. If normal web page in the Desktop application, i can able to record and get all the wen elements.
So can you anyone help me how to get all the element in the chromium browser using Coded Ui test
I overlooked the question date. But still I posted it as answer, Because I think, still it would be helpful for others to get rid of the problem mentioned in question.
I too had the same issue. After lot of R&D, I found it's very hard (perhaps impossible) to automate CEF using Coded UI.
However, it can be automated using selenium. Moreover, selenium is easy to integrate within coded UI test, if you wish to not leave coded UI.
Here's some links which you can refer how to automate CEF using selenium:
Chromium Embeded Frameowrk using chromedriver.
GitHub Example
Example Framework
There are many selenium webdriver binding package of Golang.
However, I don't want to control browser throught server.
How can I control browser with Golang and selenium without selenium server?
You can try github.com/fedesog/webdriver which says in its documentation:
This is a pure go library and doesn't require a running Selenium driver.
I would characterize the Selenium webdriver as a client rather than a server. Caveat: I have used the Selenium webdriver (Chrome version) from .Net and I am assuming it is similar for Go.
The way Selenium works is that you will launch an instance of it from within code, and it creates a live version of the selected browser (i.e. Chrome) and your program retains control over it. Then you write code to tell the browser to navigate to a page, inspect the response, and interact with the browser by filling out form data, clicking on buttons, etc. You can see what is happening on the browser as the code runs, so it is easy to troubleshoot when the interaction doesn't go as planned.
I have used Selenium to upload tens of thousands of records to a website that has no API and only a graphical user interface. Give it a chance.
I have a project that requires automating a process on a website (login, click buttons, make decisions, etc.).
Ordinarily I would use something like curl to do the automation and not worry about the UI at all, however this site uses ASPX and redirects and is just a mess, so I need to write something like a selenium test to do it.
A selenium seems like a bit of a hack though, so I was wondering if there is any alternative or tool that may be better than selenium at walking the dom and "clicking" elements?
Guidance or examples appreciated.
A non programtic way would be to use Selenium IDE. Basically you record the events via a Firefox extension and can replay easily. I understand this is a non automating way as it requires a manual playback.
However one element that I really like is that I can use this extension to record my events and then generate scripts to automate playback via Selenium Remote Control drivers.
Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium
scripts. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to
record, edit, and debug tests. Selenium IDE includes the entire
Selenium Core, allowing you to easily and quickly record and play back
tests in the actual environment that they will run in.
Yes I know you think selenium is a hack but it is rather pretty good!
I'm trying to get Selenium tests to work through PHPUnit. My tests pass in Firefox, but not in IE9. In IE, no matter what combination of settings I've tried, when the Selenium server is running IE will not go directly to the page, and instead displays "There is a problem with this website's security certificate".
If I shut down Selenium, I can use IE to access the site being tested with no problems.
I've tried telling IE that the CyberVillians cert is OK, I've added the cert to IE's list of certs, and tried various Selenium Server command line options.
For what it's worth, I'm using the very latest Selenium and PHPUnit files (downloaded today).
Any ideas?
The solution was indeed to abandon using Selenium RC.
I ended up using chibimagic's Webdriver for PHP, and everything works great. I'll probably end up writing a brokering class to make in interface more like that of PHPUnit_Extensions_SeleniumTestCase. That way, I can work up test scripts using Selenium IDE, using their PHP formatter, and then just paste into my unit test.