I need to have selenium automation download a file using firefox.
The automation successfully clicks the download, but a MIME opens to ask what to do. I need selenium to ignore this and just download the file.
Everything I have read days I should be able to use a function like this
const firefoxOption = new firefox.Options().set_preference(
'browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk',
'application/zip,text/csv,text/txt',
);
But when I run this, it fails before it ever gets to clicking the download because this piece throws an error.
TypeError: (intermediate value).set_preference is not a function
what am I doing wrong??
ALL answers listed on SO show this exact code snippet and it is not working.
const firefoxOption = new firefox.Options().setPreference(
'browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk',
'application/zip,text/csv,text/txt',
);
That method is for python
https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/docs/api/javascript/module/selenium-webdriver/firefox_exports_Options.html
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I am running Selenium Firefox Webdriver on Python for webscraping and when I am going around diferent pages, some of those have some mechanism that open new windows, something in the way of this:
$(function(){
window.open(url, windowName[, windowFeatures]);
});
And it is some kind of malicious webpage that keeps opening random pages on new windows and after some minutes my PC runs out of memory and crashes.
So want I want is to load some feature on the webdriver so it doesn't allow pages to open new windows.
I have tryed not to load JS but this feature is no longer working I guess.
Also, if you know some option or preference to ignore script tags I would like to know it.
Thanks in advice.
Try loading a JS file just in your tests which overwrites the window.open function. Something like:
(function(){
window.open = function() { return false; }
})();
Notice this is an immediatly invoked function exectution.
I am trying to upload a file in the webpage through selenium webdriver, and i have written the below code
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("#collapseDocuments > div > button.button.ng-isolatescope")).sendKeys("C:\\Users\\siva.247588\\Desktop\\Clarient+AML+Questionnaire.docx");
The CSS selector is that of the browse button.
I am getting the below error whwn i run this:
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: cannot focus element
What is wrong with my code? Could any one advise?
When you try to upload a file, the control is shifted to our local machine from website where we were writing scripts.
So normal click method and select method won't work. You can use robot method to browse and upload some file from your local machine to websites.
Hope this help you..
See the below link for help:
http://www.seleniumeasy.com/selenium-tutorials/webdriver-file-upload-using-robots
I've used this somewhere , hope you can relate this:
Robot rb = new Robot();
rb.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_A);
rb.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_A);
rb.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_L);
rb.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_L);
rb.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_E);
rb.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_E);
rb.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_R);
rb.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_R);
rb.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_T);
rb.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_T);
Thread.sleep(4000L);
rb.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);
rb.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);
Thread.sleep(4000L);
rb.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
rb.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
This will browse and upload a file with name "Alert"
If you need more help, kindly provide me code and what you want to upload , I'll help you to resolve your issue.
As #theroot mentioned AutoIT is a good solution, but the downside is it works only on windows based platforms. The best solution so far that I have come across for upload or focus outside browser situations is using Sikuli. Example code is below
Screen sikuliObject= new Screen(); // Creating Screen class object
Pattern add = new Pattern("path to the image.png"); // Path of the upload button image.
sikuliObject.click(add); // Click on Upload button
Thread.sleep(2000); // Wait for 2 seconds for upload window pop-up.
sikuliObject.type("Path of the uploading file and click on enter."+ Key.ENTER );
//Path of the uploading file and click on enter.
Thread.sleep(2000); // Wait for 2 seconds to load the file.
I've once had a similar problem (I'm not sure anymore if it threw a "not visible" exception or the "could not focus"one) and the problem was that the input Element wasn't accessible because it had no dimensions. I've changed the DOM information using the JavaScriptExecuter and afterwards it worked fine. Just go through your page with Firebug and look if the element is really visible.
I've written a website scraper for use in a project.
I'm controlling Firefox through Sahi using Mink to visit each site and interact with any elements where necessary. I've managed to get this working perfectly on all sites I've tried except for one...
I'm trying to get the markup from https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/phones/
I'm using the exact same code for this page, as I have for all others:
// Configure driver
$this->driver = new \Behat\Mink\Driver\SahiDriver('firefox',
new \Behat\SahiClient\Client(
new \Behat\SahiClient\Connection(null, CRAWL_SERVER, 9999)
)
);
// Init session:
$this->session = new \Behat\Mink\Session($this->driver);
// Start session:
$this->session->start();
// Open the url
$this->session->visit($config['url']);
// Get the markup from the page
$markup = $this->session->getPage()->getContent();
When I use this code to attempt to get the markup from https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/phones/ Mink just seems to hang, waiting for something to happen.
It would seem that maybe something on this page is preventing either Sahi or Mink from returning the markup. I've also tried running other functions instead of getContent(), such as $this->session->wait(2000); and attempting to search through getPage using the find command.
If anyone has any idea as to why this is happening I would be very interested in finding out why and how I can make this work.
tl;dr
Why is Mink/Sahi timing out on this site?
I'd like to reopen the question posed here and here about testing file uploading within Nightwatch.js which uses selenium.
Both links have the recommended solution of setting the value of the file input element as the url. In my use case, I've been unable to get this to work. Even setting the value tag manually, outside of nightwatch, of the input where type="file", does not change the url. I've tried this on Chrome, Firefox, and IE10, within the dev tools.
An alternative solution I've looked at was trying to emulate the entire file upload process keystrokes. This would follow the path of clicking the file upload button, typing the path, and typing enter. This would be done through the .click and .key methods. However, you lose focus of the actual file upload window, which delays the keystrokes until that window is closed. Other developers have seemed to be able to fix this solution directly in selenium using the .findElement and .sendKeys methods in java, but I could not figure out how to do this within javascript and nightwatch itself.
Any ideas?
// My test
module.exports = {
"Standard File Upload" : function (browser) {
browser
.url("http://localhost:3000")
.waitForElementVisible('body', 1000)
.waitForElementVisible('input[type="file"]', 1000)
.setValue('input[type="file"]','http://localhost:3000/testfile.txt')
.click('#submit')
.pause(1000)
.assert.containsText('h3', 'File Uploaded Successfully')
.end();
}
};
// http://localhost:3000/testfile.txt was tested manually in the file upload window and worked successfully
<!-- My input tag -->
<input id="fileUpload" type="file" name="textfile"/>
There were two seperate issues with my setValue() method implementation.
Using the --verbose tag in the nightwatch command led me to an issue
where it was not actually finding the input tag during the
setValue(), however it was during the waitForElementVisible().
Changing input[type="file"] to input#fileUpload solved this
issue.
Secondly, the following ways of describing the path were not working...
'textfile.txt'
'http://localhost:3000/testfile.txt' (Will work if typed manually into file upload window)
What did work was using require('path').resolve(__dirname + '/testfile.txt')
Take a look here to see the discussion that led to the fix. Thanks goes out to richard-flosi.
The working code:
module.exports = {
"Standard File Upload" : function (browser) {
browser
.url("http://localhost:3000")
.waitForElementVisible('body', 1000)
.waitForElementVisible('input#fileUpload', 1000)
.pause(1000)
.setValue('input#fileUpload', require('path').resolve(__dirname + '/testfile.txt')) // Works
// .setValue('input#fileUpload', "testfile.txt") // Will not work
// .setValue('input#fileUpload', "http://localhost:3000/testfile.txt") // Will not work
// .setValue('input[type="file"]', require('path').resolve(__dirname + '/testfile.txt')) // Will not work
.click('#submit')
.pause(1000)
.assert.containsText('h3', 'File Uploaded Successfully')
.end();
}
};
I'm not sure why you're having these issues, maybe check to see if you are using the latest version of selenium server and nightwatch. This code works for me 100% in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE7/8/9/10/11 (not tested in IE6 but assume it as well).
driver.setValue('input#fileUpload', __dirname + '\\testfile.txt')
In my case, I had an additional problem because the file I was trying to upload was too high up in my directory structure.
As soon as I moved the file to the same level (or in a subdirectory of) the actual test files, things worked.
From a script living in my page-objects folder:
// No dice:
var fullPath = require('path').resolve(__dirname + '/../../somefile.pdf');
// Works:
var fullPath = require('path').resolve(__dirname + '/../somefile.pdf');
this.setValue('input#fileUpload', fullPath);
I am using gmaps4rails-1.3.0 to render a few maps in my rails-3.0.7 application. When the map loads, it already has a few markers set. The users get to select which type of markers they want to see by getting to click on a few checkboxes. This works fine in all versions of FF, Chrome and IE that I have checked.
So, now I wanted to write automated test cases to check this functionality. For this, I wrote rspec-2.6.0 request examples which are run through capybara-1.1.2 using the selenium-2.14.0 driver. The test is able to load the map fine with all of the markers showing up correctly. However, no markers are removed when the test unchecks one of the checkboxes. I inserted a debugger statement at the end of test and then checked the error console in the browser. It had the following message:
console is not defined
http://127.0.0.1:51643/javascripts/gmaps4rails/gmaps4rails.googlemaps.js?1323052026 Line 196
Checking the relevant file showed the following function:
Gmaps4RailsGoogle.prototype.clearMarker = function(marker) {
console.log(marker);
return marker.serviceObject.setMap(null);
};
I then noticed that during normal operation, a no. of such log messages are displayed in the firebug console. The selenium webdriver profile doesn't have firebug and nor do I expect all my users to have firebug.
Should a console.log() call be there in any javascript file post-development? If yes, what's the way to test it with a rendering driver, in particular with selenium?