I'm getting a popup in IE 11 browser 'long running script' and page stocks. How can I find what script is producing it?
The way I used to find the problem script.
1) View page source on the browser without issue.
2) Save source to HTML file.
3) Place file to the same domain so it can load domain related files.
4) One by one remove javascript from HTML code and checking if an issue has gone on IE browser.
Press F12 to open the "Developer Tools Interface". Change to the Network-Tab and refresh your page. It should show you what is using how much time to load.
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I'm using Selenium IDE to automate some browser processes, I need to do a test from which I open the source code of a page (view-source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeQuelXsUYA) and trying to find a certain word, I am using youtube as an example, however when clicking on "Select target in page" the following error appears "Tab not found / No guide is available for this test case, please keep recording or play. " I've tested it with several pages, and command recording works fine, but every time I open the page's source code, the selenium IDE doesn't record the commands.
Thanks in advance.
[![This is the image of the error, the first script I ask to open the page's source code works, however when I try to select target in page, the error appears, as if the page were not open.1
I'm using Chrome to get the HTML of a webpage which is generated by javascript. The applescript which does all this needs to run every 2 minutes. Everything is working perfectly, except that I obviously need Chrome to do this completely in the background. My script contains the following uses of Chrome (as well as a block to set theTab, which doesn't seem to ever cause Chrome to come to the front):
set URL of theTab to theURL
set isLoading to (loading of theTab)
execute front window's active tab javascript javascriptLocation
set theSource to execute front window's active tab javascript "document.documentElement.outerHTML"
Putting this line:
tell application "Finder" to set visible of process "Google Chrome" to false
after each of the above lines either produces no hiding at all, or at best Chrome flashes onscreen and then goes away. I find this very distracting.
Is there any way to have an application run reliably and permanently in the backround? Or, failing this, is there an invisible way to get javascript executed server-side so an applescript can get hold of its generated source?
Chrome 66.0.3359.181 running on Mac OS 10.11.6, Applescript 2.5.
The following is not an answer to the question I posted, but it is an answer to the problem I was trying to solve which is why I posted the question.
As stated in my question, I need to get hold of the HTML which some javascript generates on a site (which is not under my control). I can't do a client-side scrape because of CORS restrictions on the site. I tried the cross-domain tools listed here and couldn't get them to work.
So I was using Chrome's applescript command, execute, to first execute the javascript (to produce the HTML), and then a second time to grab hold of the HTML with document.documentElement.outerHTML. But having Chrome flash onto the screen every 2 minutes throughout the day was doing my head in.
Turns out Chrome can also run in headless mode, from the command line, and just happens to have an option to run javascript and return the generated HTML!
So my code got a whole lot simpler and I don't have to have Chrome in my apps list all the time. Happy coder am I :-)
Here's the one line that gets me the HTML generated on the site I need:
set theSource to (do shell script ((quoted form of POSIX path of googlePath) & " --headless --dump-dom " & theURL))
Thanks, once again, #matt. I'd never heard of headless mode and would never have found this without your suggestion of PhantomJS!
I have very weird issue with some VBA code. The code is InternetExplorer automation and it's really simple: I just need to load page, enter credentials and click on the button on another page (after successful login).
But... My code is not working (but only on one of my machines on AWS). On my local machine this code works fine.
The weird thing is that it seams I have access only to the Document property of the first loaded page (where I need to enter login/password). I mean from MyBrowser.Document property I can see all INPUT fields when I load start page. But after successful login (the IE window is visible) I see same INPUT fields from MyBrowser.Document property! Also (as I said) I have no issues with this code on another maching.
IE Protected mode is disabled (this is IE 11). I think this is some kind of security issue but I can't locate it by myself...
Here is my code:
'MyBrowser is IE instanse
'Here I'm loading start page and input login/password
'Next the browser show me another page where I need to click a button
'But Debug messages show me input fields for the first Form!
Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue("0:00:05"))
Do
DoEvents
Loop Until MyBrowser.ReadyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE
Set HTMLDoc = MyBrowser.Document
For Each myHTML_Element In HTMLDoc.getElementsByTagName("INPUT")
If myHTML_Element.Type = "submit" And myHTML_Element.Name = "BUTTONNEWJOBS" Then myHTML_Element.Click: Exit For
Debug.Print myHTML_Element.Name
Next
UPDATE
I don't know why but my browser object is always Busy that's why I get old page HTML. I tried to .Stop it but with no luck.
I don't have answer for IE11 automation, just a hint for a path you may choose to walk.
Another Stack Overflow question Getting source of a page after it's rendered in a templating engine? provides some browser automation options.
One of the mentioned tool has currently broken support for IE11 due to a IE11 behavior change, see http://docs.seleniumhq.org/about/platforms.jsp#browsers. The blocking issue has some configuration hints you may find useful.
In my opinion Internet Explorer was ALWAYS the least reliable tool both from the point of view of rendering compatibility, programmability and even the automation problems accross different versions. And although it had improved over the years Internet Explorer is still better to be avoided (from programmer's point of view). Today it is luckily not the only tool available.
So if you just need to get the work done, there are other browsers or browser-like tools that you can use.
If you MUST use IE then you should get your answer at the Internet Explorer Dev Center → Community → Developer forums
EDIT (after comments)
By the symptoms in your question it looks like the browser object is busy because of some dialog box (perhaps a security prompt) is being show to the user. Some links from Google that may help:
required IE configuration from the selenium browser automation engine - https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver
how to disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration - http://4sysops.com/archives/four-ways-to-disable-internet-explorer-enhanced-security-configuration-ie-esc/
Internet Explorer Security Zones and Compatibility View - https://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/9.1_SP_14/Administrator/030_Browser_Support/030_Browser_Support_IE_Issue
set of dialogs that can be manipulated by the iMacros Internet Explorer automation toolkit - http://wiki.imacros.net/Browser_Automation#Dialog_Manager
Rewriting ~1000 lines of code to use another automation interface (or browser) and asking for help at the Microsoft's Internet Explorer Dev Center are IMO still valid options
Based on your following statement
I see same INPUT fields from MyBrowser.Document property!
it would seem that the page hasn't fully loaded. Perhaps it is loading data via AJAX and clicking the submit button shows the exact same page (which would explain why you were seeing the same INPUT fields) while waiting for a response from the server.
An easy way to test this is to wait for a longer period of time (e.g. 30 seconds) and ignoring the value of the browser ReadyState. However a better way would be looping until you find a element on the successful page that isn't on the first page, with a possible timeout of maybe 30 seconds.
I've used Selenium to do some automation and ran into similar problems and had to resort to using Implicit Waits but I'm not sure if VBA as such a feature (as I don't know VBA)
I'm trying to validate data using selenium version 1.0.9 in magento grid and its detail page.
First, I walked through Selenium IDE from login page to module detail page and click the tabs available there. Eventually, IDE generates PHP codes so I put the code into proper location.
Note: Here, I have clicked the two tabs so that the events get recorded into selenium IDE.
Then, I run the code from command prompt using following command:
phpunit --configuration /var/www/tests/phpunit_test.xml
I got the error (something like):
ERROR: Element //a[#id='test_tabs_form_section']/span not found.
I modified the code and tried to open the detail page before executing click to above link i.e. "test_tabs_form_section", I am getting same error.
Another strange this is if I verify any text of detail page and remove the code that calls click to module detail tabs, it is works, not sure why?
But I really want to open detail page and click to tab, get forms element values using xpath and validate the data.
Can somebody help me, please?
Any help or suggestion is highly appreciable!
Looking forward to hear from stackoverflow geeks!
Thanks
In case this helps anybody:
I found out more things work if firebug is active. This actually makes sense cause firebug will show the final DOM tree in all it's debugging screens, so it's possible selenium is now able to reconstruct the element path because firebug altered the internal DOM.
If something doesn't work with the default element selection created by Selenium IDE, try switching it over to xpath:id-relative. You're already using that in your question, so maybe you there's an even better selector or you will need to resort to using clickAt instead of click.
I searched around and couldn't find how to test a file download box using capybara/cucumber?
The following image asks the question much clearer.
This was similar to another question I just answered, hope it helps Anybody have idea how to test file download using cucumber?
#Millisami Capybara::NotSupportedByDriverError Fixed for me!
What i had to do is removing the #javascript tag from my cucumber test, which was included. I mean:
#search
Scenario: Recieving a file
...
instead of
#search
#javascript
Scenario: Recieving a file
...
Hope it helps :-)
The download box is a function of the browser. Capybara simulates a browser but without all the UI etc.. (e.g. it looks like a browser to your application, so using it you'd mostly skip over the whole file download UI stuff. It would look to the browser like someone did whatever they needed to in order to tell the browser where to put the file and start the download)
If you are trying to test a download box, (beyond clicks needed to start the download) you are now testing the browser, not your application. As yourself if that's part of your charter and worth your time.
To actually test the download box you are going to have to have a browser instance going, and use a tool like Firewatir/Watir or Selenium, to actually 'drive' the browser, and some other gem to actually automate up at the OS UI level (on windows we usually use autoit) in order to click things and fill in values of the browser's file download UI.