Disable Google Analytics using javascript in Selenium - selenium

I'm using selenium to test a production site. The test activity screws with the analytics.
Can I disable the analytics using JavaScript after the page has loaded, via Selenium? I know I can execute JS via Selenium. The question is, how to disable the GA code?

Here are few options you might try. Some were taken from this blog post -
Exclude Selenium WebDriver traffic from Google Analytics.
Option 0: Avoid testing live production sites
Ideally automated Selenium UI testing is preferred to test against some kind of testing environment, instead of mess around live production databases. As live production sites only need some manual exploratory/smoke testing. In this case, when setting up the testing environment, use a different Google Analytics tracker or even avoid using Google Analytics.
Option1: Disable JavaScript
Since Google Analytics tracking is done by executing a snippet of JavaScript code, disable JavaScript in browsers would do. But this isn't practical, because surely this will impact the functionality of the site.
Option2: Set user agent and exclude user agent
Set a special testing user agent when start WebDriver, then in your source, use JavaScript to exclude that user agent.
For example, your GA should be:
if (user agent != your special testing user agent) {
your GA code
}
Option3: Exclude IP/ISP
Set it in your GA's admin settings
Option4: Opt-out plugins
Start your WebDriver a GA opt-out plugin (only possible with ChromeDriver and FirefoxDriver). Google Analytics Opt out Add ons
Option5: Custom variables (cookies) with JavaScript
See "Set a Cookie with JavaScript" section in Best Ways to Exclude Internal Traffic in Google Analytics
Option6: Use a proxy like BrowserMob Proxy
BrowserMob Proxy allows manipulating HTTP requests and responses, capturing HTTP content, and exporting performance data as a HAR file. It supports blacklisting which can be used as a way of blocking data sent to Google Analytics.
require 'browsermob/proxy'
require 'selenium-webdriver'
server = BrowserMob::Proxy::Server.new("./browsermob-proxy-2.1.4/bin/browsermob-proxy", :log => true)
server.start
proxy = server.create_proxy
proxy.blacklist("https?:\/\/www\.google-analytics\.com\/.*", 404)
profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
profile.proxy = proxy.selenium_proxy
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox, :profile => profile
proxy.new_har "browsermob"
driver.get 'http://yizeng.me/'
har = proxy.har
har.entries.first.request.url
har.save_to "./browsermob.har"
proxy.close
driver.quit
Option7: Remove GA code using Selenium JavaScriptexecutor
Your idea, but not sure if this is possible, once GA code is loaded, it's been executed, using Selenium to remove to code has to be somehow after that?

By the power of --host-resolver-rules
let chrome = require("selenium-webdriver/chrome");
const chromeOptions = new chrome.Options();//.headless();
chromeOptions.addArguments('--host-resolver-rules=MAP www.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1');
var $browser = new $driver.Builder()
.forBrowser("chrome")
.setChromeOptions(chromeOptions)
I learned it from Can I automate Chrome request blocking using Selenium-webdriver for Ruby? and it is working great.

Somewhat late, but a low tech option if you're using a view engine, e.g. Razor, is to have a property on the view model such as IsTestEnvironment. Set this at run-time based on a configuration or Environment value and then test for it in the JavaScript, e.g.
#if (!Model.IsTestEnvironment){
// Google Analytics tracking code.
}
Then the tracking script will only be included on your chosen environments.

Related

How do I persist browser cache or local storage with cloud based test automation like browserstack for a PWA?

I'm developing a PWA (progressive web app), which heavily relies on offline storage with local storage, indexedDB and browser cache. I'd like to test whether this offline storage works as expected and avoid reloading all data which is already cached for subsequent tests.
For local executed tests I figured out that this can be achieved in chrome with loading a custom profile by user-data-dir like
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("user-data-dir=/path/to/your/custom/profile");
How can I achieve this with ...
using a cloud based testing platform eg browserstack?
is this also possible with edge and safari?
and is this also supported on native device testing like iphone and android?
Thx in advance, I really appreciate your expertise!

Selenium Google Login Block

I have a problem with Google login. I want to login to my account but Google says that automation drivers are not allowed to log in.
I am looking for a solution. Is it possible to get a cookie of normal Firefox/Chrome and load it into the ChromeDriver/GeckoDriver? I thought that this can be a solution. But I am not sure is it possible or not..
Looking for solutions...
Also, I want to add a quick solution. I solved this issue by
using one of my old verified account. That can be a quick solution for
you.
I had the same problem and found the solution for it. I am using
1) Windows 10 Pro
2) Chrome Version 83.0.4103.97 (Official Build) (64-bit)
3) selenium ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.39
Some simple C# code which open google pages
var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments(#"user-data-dir=c:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\");
IWebDriver driver = new OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver();
driver = new ChromeDriver(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), options);
driver.Url = "https://accounts.google.com/";
Console.ReadKey();
The core problem here you cant login when you use selenium driver, but you can use the profile which already logged to the google accounts.
You have to find where your Chrome store profile is and append it with "user-data-dir" option.
PS. Replace {username} with your real account name.
On linux the user profile is in "~/.config/google-chrome".
This error message...
...implies that the WebDriver instance was unable to authenticate the Browsing Context i.e. Browser session.
This browser or app may not be secure
This error can happen due to different factors as follows:
In the article "This browser or app may not be secure" error when trying to sign in with Google on desktop apps #Raphael Schaad mentioned that, if an user can log into the same app just fine with other Google accounts, then the problem must be with the particular account. In majority of the cases the possible reason is, this particular user account is configured with Two Factor Authentification.
In the article Less secure apps & your Google Account it is mentioned that, if an app or site doesn’t meet google-chrome's security standards, Google may block anyone who’s trying to sign in to your account from it. Less secure apps can make it easier for hackers to get in to your account, so blocking sign-ins from these apps helps keep your account safe.
Solution
In these cases the respective solution would be to:
Disable Two Factor Authentification for this Google account and execute your #Test.
Allow less secure apps
You can find a detailed discussion in Unable to sign into google with selenium automation because of "This browser or app may not be secure."
Deep Dive
However, to help protect your account, Web Browsers may not let you sign in from some browsers. Google might stop sign-ins from browsers that:
Doesn't support JavaScript or have Javascript turned off.
Have AutomationExtension or unsecure or unsupported extensions added.
Use automation testing frameworks.
Are embedded in a different application.
Solution
In these cases there are diverse solutions:
Use a browser that supports JavaScript:
Chrome
Safari
Firefox
Opera
Internet Explorer
Edge
Turn on JavaScript in Web Browsers: If you’re using a supported browser and still can’t sign in, you might need to turn on JavaScript.
If you still can’t sign in, it might be because you have AutomationExtension / unsecure / unsupported extensions turned on and you may need to turn off as follows:
public class browserAppDemo
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("start-maximized");
options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
options.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", Collections.singletonList("enable-automation"));
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
driver.get("https://accounts.google.com/signin")
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//input[#id='identifierId']"))).sendKeys("gashu");
driver.findElement(By.id("identifierNext")).click();
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//input[#name='password']"))).sendKeys("gashu");
driver.findElement(By.id("passwordNext")).click();
System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
}
}
You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:
Gmail login using selenium webdriver in java
Selenium test scripts to login into google account through new ajax login form
Additional Considerations
Finally, some old browser versions might not be supported, so ensure that:
JDK is upgraded to current levels JDK 8u241.
Selenium is upgraded to current levels Version 3.141.59.
ChromeDriver is updated to current ChromeDriver v80.0 level.
Chrome is updated to current Chrome Version 80.0 level. (as per ChromeDriver v80.0 release notes)
Solution without redirecting, using firefox driver, or changing any google account settings:
If you have a specific Google account you want to access, create a chrome profile with it and then load the chrome profile when using selenium:
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=C:/Users/{userName}/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Profile {#}/")
driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:/bin/chromedriver.exe", chrome_options=options)
Windows:
The profile {#} in the file path above will vary so I suggest checking inside of the User Data folder which profile you want to use. For example, if you currently only have 1 chrome account there will be no Profile directory (resorts to "Default" directory) in User Data but if you create a second chrome account there will be a "Profile 1" directory in User Data.
Note that you should create a new google chrome profile to use with selenium because attempting to use a chrome profile that is already in use (opened in another chrome window) will cause an error.
Mac:
This solution may or may not work on mac but to find the chrome account folder/filepath follow the instructions in the comment left by #bfhaha
One Solution that works for me: https://stackoverflow.com/a/60328992/12939291 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgDRRWrZKg
Short: Stackoverflow Login with Google Account with Redirect
from selenium import webdriver
from time import sleep
class Google:
def __init__(self, username, password):
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver')
self.driver.get('https://stackoverflow.com/users/signup?ssrc=head&returnurl=%2fusers%2fstory%2fcurrent%27')
sleep(3)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="openid-buttons"]/button[1]').click()
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#type="email"]').send_keys(username)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="identifierNext"]').click()
sleep(3)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#type="password"]').send_keys(password)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="passwordNext"]').click()
sleep(2)
self.driver.get('https://youtube.com')
sleep(5)
username = ''
password = ''
Google(username, password)
I just tried something out that worked for me after several hours of trial and error.
Adding args: ['--disable-web-security', '--user-data-dir', '--allow-running-insecure-content' ] to my config resolved the issue.
I realized later that this was not what helped me out as I tried with a different email and it didn't work. After some observations, I figured something else out and this has been tried and tested.
Using automation:
Go to https://stackoverflow.com/users/login
Select Log in with Google Strategy
Enter Google username and password
Login to Stackoverflow
Go to https://gmail.com (or whatever Google app you want to access)
After doing this consistently for like a whole day (about 24 hours), try automating your login directly to gmail (or whatever Google app you want to access) directly... I've had at least two other people do this with success.
PS - You might want to continue with the stackoverflow login until you at least get a captcha request as we all went through that phase as well.
This might be still open / not answered
Here is an working (28.04.2021) example in this following thread:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/66308429/15784196
Use Firefox as driver. I tested his example and it did work!
#Mike-Fakesome on this https://gist.github.com/ikegami-yukino/51b247080976cb41fe93 thread suggest a solution that works
import undetected_chromedriver.v2 as uc
import random,time,os,sys
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
GMAIL = '<GMAIL_HERE>'
PASSWORD = '<PASSWORD_HERE>'
chrome_options = uc.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-popup-blocking")
chrome_options.add_argument("--profile-directory=Default")
chrome_options.add_argument("--ignore-certificate-errors")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-plugins-discovery")
chrome_options.add_argument("--incognito")
chrome_options.add_argument("user_agent=DN")
driver = uc.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
driver.delete_all_cookies()
driver.get("https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth/oauthchooseaccount?redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.google.com%2Foauthplayground&prompt=consent&response_type=code&client_id=407408718192.apps.googleusercontent.com&scope=email&access_type=offline&flowName=GeneralOAuthFlow")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div/form/span/section/div/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/input").send_keys(GMAIL)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div/form/span/section/div/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/input").send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
time.sleep(10)
also you can use import undetected_chromedriver as uc instead of import undetected_chromedriver.v2 as uc now as well
I solved this issue last week using following steps:
First two steps are out of your project code.
Create a new user directory for Chrome browser.
You can name this folder whatever you like and place it anywhere.
Run Chrome browser in debugger mode using just created directory
cd C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application
chrome.exe --remote-debuggin-port=9222 --user-data-dir="C:\localhost"
You can use any free port but I followed this article:
https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/
Browser window opens.
Login manually to Google / Facebook / etc using opened window.
Close the browser.
In your project:
Copy chrome-user-directory you just created into 'resources' package.
Set debugging option for Chrome driver.
/**
* This method is added due to Google security policies changed.
* Now it's impossible to login in Google account via Selenium at first time.
* We use a user data directory for Chrome where we previously logged in.
*/
private WebDriver setWebDriver() {
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--user-data-dir=" + System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/src/main/resources/localhost");
options.addArguments("--remote-debugging-port=9222");
return new ChromeDriver(options);
}
Enjoy.
PS: If you have another solution without copying chrome user-directory into the project, please share it)
I found a solution ,#theycallmepix and #Yinka Albi are correct but because(i think) google blacklisted accounts that did just programatically login the first time and so later they coudn't login normally. So Basically just use different a account and go to to Stackauth or StackoverFlow. Then manually login with Google(first link your account) And then manually login in google.com and then it should work prgramaticaly
P.S. pls comment if this doesn't work
Use the below given snippet method to Login to your Google Account.
Language: Python3
Redirect via: StackAuth (Reason explained at the end)
[Edit: You need to import the required packages. Make sure that the Automation that you do is running in Foreground, I mean, it's not minimised until you login completely. Once if the login is successful, then you can re-direct to the required website that you want.]
def login(username, password): # Logs in the user
driver.get('https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth/identifier?client_id=717762328687-iludtf96g1hinl76e4lc1b9a82g457nn.apps.googleusercontent'
'.com&scope=profile%20email&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fstackauth.com%2Fauth%2Foauth2%2Fgoogle&state=%7B%22sid%22%3A1%2C%22st%22%3A%2'
'259%3A3%3Abbc%2C16%3A561fd7d2e94237c0%2C10%3A1599663155%2C16%3Af18105f2b08c3ae6%2C2f06af367387a967072e3124597eeb4e36c2eff92d3eef697'
'1d95ddb5dea5225%22%2C%22cdl%22%3Anull%2C%22cid%22%3A%22717762328687-iludtf96g1hinl76e4lc1b9a82g457nn.apps.googleusercontent.com%22%'
'2C%22k%22%3A%22Google%22%2C%22ses%22%3A%2226bafb488fcc494f92c896ee923849b6%22%7D&response_type=code&flowName=GeneralOAuthFlow')
driver.find_element_by_name("identifier").send_keys(username)
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(expected_conditions.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[#id='identifierNext']/div/button/div[2]"))).click()
driver.implicitly_wait(4)
try:
driver.find_element_by_name("password").send_keys(password)
WebDriverWait(driver, 2).until(expected_conditions.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[#id='passwordNext']/div/button/div[2]"))).click()
except TimeoutException:
print('\nUsername/Password seems to be incorrect, please re-check\nand Re-Run the program.')
del username, password
exit()
except NoSuchElementException:
print('\nUsername/Password seems to be incorrect, please re-check\nand Re-Run the program.')
del username, password
exit()
try:
WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(lambda webpage: "https://stackoverflow.com/" in webpage.current_url)
print('\nLogin Successful!\n')
except TimeoutException:
print('\nUsername/Password seems to be incorrect, please re-check\nand Re-Run the program.')
exit()
The above code, takes 2 parameters - gmailID and password. If the password or username is wrong, then you'll notified.
Why stackauth?
-> Stackauth uses OAuth 2.0 authorisation to access Google APIs(here, Google account login needs Google API to work) to securely login a user into his/her Google Account.
Click here to read more about OAuth.
Edit:
I just answered to my own question which I'd posted yesterday thinking that it might help you.
As of now, 2021, it can successfully bypass all the google restrictions that used to occur when logging in.
Feel free to revert back if it doesn't work.
Link to my answer is here
If your Chrome browser was spun up using Chromedriver, then there is detectable evidence that websites can use to determine if you're using Selenium, and then they can block you. However, if the Chrome browser is spun up before Chromedriver connects to it, then you have a browser that no longer looks like an automation-controlled one. Modern web automation libraries such as undetectable-chromedriver are aware of this, and so they make sure Chrome is spun up before connecting chromedriver to it.
The modern framework that I use for these situations is SeleniumBase in undetected chromedriver mode. Here's a script that you can use to get past automation detection on Google: (Run with python after installing seleniumbase with pip install -U seleniumbase)
from seleniumbase import SB
with SB(uc=True) as sb:
sb.open("https://www.google.com/gmail/about/")
sb.click('a[data-action="sign in"]')
sb.type('input[type="email"]', "NAME#gmail.com")
sb.click('button:contains("Next")')
sb.type('input[type="password"]', PASSWORD)
sb.click('button:contains("Next")')
sb.sleep(5)
A slow yet good solution would be delaying every key press. Why? because google uses a kind of captcha where it analyzes your typing speed and more things. So if you wanna type a mail or password like example#example.com, you'd have to do this:
for i in "example#example.com\n": #\n because the submit doesn't work in input fields in google sign in, so \n is equivalent of pressing enter
element.send_keys(i)
time.sleep(0.4) #don't forget to import time or something else with which you could delay your code!
time.sleep(1) #also this sleep because when the button will redirect url, it'd not reload the site and selenium will not wait so one more sleep
PS: if not working, try changing the values of sleep or any other delaying function

Can Selenium be used to automate data retrieval from a 3rd party web portal?

I need to automate a manual task to retrieve sales data from a web portal that is not setup for API access.
Can I use a test tool, such as Selenium, to do this task or is there a better solution out there.
I've never used Selenium but it looks easy enough to create record a macro for the button clicks to log in and initiate the download. I also need to trigger the download once a week, notify an email or slack channel if there is an error and then save the file with a specific name including the date.
My hope is that I can do all of this within an test automation tool but willing to explore other options.
Yes it can be implemented. Once you succeed with fetching the data, change your webdriver run option to "Headless", so that Selenium will run at background and will not make the browser visible during runtime. An example for setting headless mode on Firefox:
FirefoxOptions firefoxOptions = new FirefoxOptions();
firefoxOptions.addArguments("--headless")
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(options); // init driver in headless mode
After that you can use the fetched data in the rest of your program.

How to disable local storage feature in Selenium?

I want to test the code that must run when the browser does not have / does not allow me to use the local storage feature. Is there any way to mock this behavior on Selenium side?
Take a look at this question and the answers:
How can I browse with localstorage disabled?
It's not specifically about selenium, but it tells you how to configure the browsers to disable local storage; using that, you should be able to run selenium with a browser using that configuration.

Restricting Selenium/Webdriver/HtmlUnit to a certain domain

While using selenium/webdriver for web scraping, I realized the target site has google analytics script running. Is there a way to restrict selenium/webdriver/htmlunit to avoid certain urls/domains ?
Thanks,
I think it is impossible becouse Selenium is actually adapter for several implementation. So he can't deny to load some scripts to firefox or chrome. Perhaps you can check driver api(firefox profile, htmlunit configuration file) to accomplish this.