Explicit in selenium - selenium

I am using Selenium to get div value, but the fallowing code is not waiting for the page, just for URL. I used time.sleep, which is very primitive and totally not flexible. I want to change it on the explicit, but I am not too experienced in Python and I have a problem with that.
The website name has been changed just in case :
def repeat():
import wx
while True:
botloc = driver.find_element_by_id('botloc').text
print botloc
botX,botY = map(int,botloc.split(','))
print botX
print botY
wx.Yield()
def checker():
if driver.current_url == 'logged.example.com':
time.sleep(5)
repeat()
else:
checker()
checker()
How can I replace time.sleep with something flexible to wait the shortest time as possible after the page will be loaded? How to use explicit correctly with my code?
I know that's possible with using an element from the website, but I can't write anything sensible, I just need an example.
Is possibility to use element_by_id('botloc') for wait till it will be visible then start repeat() ?

How can i replace time.sleep with something flexible to wait shortest
time as possible after the page will be loaded?
I suppose you use get(url) to load the page. Generally you don't have to do anything, WebDriver automatically waits until page is being loaded. So you can remove time.sleep(). However there are some issues reported when loading the page using get with firefox driver, because of that you will have to wait for some target element which is supposed to be in the loaded page as mentioned below.
How to use explicit correctly with my code?
Have you checked Selenium webdriver documentation ? you can wait for botloc element explicitly as below
//assuming you have a valid webdriver reference
//Ex: DEFAULT_WAIT = 10 means
//waits up to 10 seconds before throwing a TimeoutException or if it finds the element will return it in 0 - 10 seconds.
element = WebDriverWait(webdriver, DEFAULT_WAIT).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "botloc")))
Refer this page for more information

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Rotating Proxies and Selenium - Close driver and re-run script with new IP

I am running an automated script that needs to change IP every 5-6 refreshes. I understand that the it cannot be changed dynamically as it needs to re-open the webdriver with new options. I have a list of proxies in a text file and I wish to use these IPs at random every 5-6 times the driver refreshes. It would normally get stuck in a try catch statement that looks for a keyword and if it does not find the keyword it will refresh every 5 seconds until this word is found.
def find_link_by_word_in_href(driver, words):
for word in words:
try:
return driver.find_element(By.XPATH, f"//*[contains(#href,'{word}')]")
except NoSuchElementException:
pass
while True:
element = find_link_by_word_in_href(driver, ['dadsa', 'daasd', 'asdsad'])
if element is not None:
element.click()
break
else:
driver.refresh()
time.sleep(5)
I wish to break this once it hits 5 refreshes and restart the script choosing a new IP from the text file. Can anybody help or point me in the correct direction to solve this?

Can we get to know Browser rendering time for each page in JMeter using webDriver sampler?

I am planning to do a load test with around 220 users ,Client is expecting Browser rendering time as well. So I though 1 will create one script for load test ,and create one more script with Selenium script in JMeter to measure rendering time. So that while executing load test , if I execute selenium script as well. It will give the Browser rendering time.
But as I saw, With Selenium sampler ,Aggregate report shows end to end response time. If i want to know the Browser rendering time of each page ,if there any way to get the breakdown?
You have 2 options:
Use a separate WebDriver Sampler per "page" like:
Alternatively you can use WDS.sampleResult.addSubResult function to add "child" results to a single WebDriver Sampler instance, example code would be something like:
WDS.sampleResult.sampleStart()
var seleniumDev = new org.apache.jmeter.samplers.SampleResult()
seleniumDev.setSampleLabel('Selenium main page')
seleniumDev.sampleStart()
WDS.browser.get('https://selenium.dev')
seleniumDev.setResponseCodeOK()
seleniumDev.setSuccessful(true)
seleniumDev.sampleEnd()
WDS.sampleResult.addSubResult(seleniumDev)
var jmeter = new org.apache.jmeter.samplers.SampleResult()
jmeter.setSampleLabel('JMeter main page')
jmeter.sampleStart()
WDS.browser.get('https://jmeter.apache.org')
jmeter.setResponseCodeOK()
jmeter.setSuccessful(true)
jmeter.sampleEnd()
WDS.sampleResult.addSubResult(jmeter)
WDS.sampleResult.sampleEnd()
resulting in the following:
More information: The WebDriver Sampler: Your Top 10 Questions Answered

GEB assertion, waitFor

I'm learning GEB in IntelliJ and have two issues.
When I click button on the top of the page I'm redirected to very bottom of the page.
After this I need to do assertion that the site slided down.
I try to do assertion in this example:
assert page.element_on_the bottom.isDisplayed() == true
// element_on_the bottom {$('css_selector)
The above assertion always returns true even I don't click button to slide down.
I need to check if element is visible on the part of website which is actually displayed on my monitor screen. Is there a way to do this?
I try to use waitFor statement in example:
waitFor{page.element.isDisplayed()}
but it doesn't work:
geb.waiting.WaitTimeoutException: condition did not pass in 5.0 seconds (failed with exception)
instead of this I use:
Thread.sleep(3000) //which is not desirable here
and then my test passes. I think my element don't trigger any js or ajax script actions.
I'm not sure how to use waitFor that should wait for all elements to load.
Element doesn't have to be in view for is isDisplayed() to return true - it will return true as long as the element is visible on page, e.g. it's display property is not set to hidden. You will need to detect your scroll position using javascript because WebDriver does not expose scroll information. See this response for how to detect that scroll is at the bottom of the page and see this section of the Book of Geb for how to execute javascript code in the browser.
What is the exception and its stacktrace that you're getting from your waitFor {} call? It probably contains the clue on what is actually going on.
For your first problem, can you please try the following as displayed should work fine for the visibility and present should be good to check the presence of the css selector in the DOM:
waitFor { page.element_on_the bottom.isDisplayed() }
or
waitFor { page.element_on_the bottom.displayed() }
For the second problem, you need to edit your Gebconfig file, like below as the waiting time you have right now is 5 seconds that's why it's failing whereas your sleep time is way more than 5 seconds:
waiting {
timeout = 30
retryInterval = 0.1
}
or, you can also try that at the same line of the code as below:
waitFor (30, 0.1) {page.element.isDisplayed()}
Please let us know if that worked fine or not! On another note, why don't you simply write the function name from the imported class instead of always writing className.functionName()? Best of luck and Cheers!!

Selenium's WebDriver.execute_script() returns 'None'

My program is having trouble getting an existing class from a webpage using Selenium. It seems that my WebDriver.execute_script function is not working.
import urllib
from selenium import webdriver
#Path to the chromedriver is definitely working fine.
path_to_chromedriver = 'C:\Users\Ben\Desktop\Coding\FreeFoodFinder\chromedriver.exe'
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = path_to_chromedriver)
url = 'http://www.maidservicetexas.com/'
browser.implicitly_wait(30)
browser.get(url)
content = browser.execute_script("document.getElementsByClassName('content')");
#Just printing the first character of the returned content's toString for now. Don't want the whole thing yet.
#Only ever prints 'N', the first letter of 'None'...so obviously it isn't finding the jsgenerated content even after waiting.
print content
My program returns 'None,' which tells me that the javascript function is not returning a value/being executed. Chrome's web dev tools tell me that 'content' is certainly a valid class name. The webpage isn't even dynamically generated (my eventual goal is to scrape dynamic content, which is why I make my WebDriver wait for 30 seconds before running the script.)
Return the value:
content = browser.execute_script("return document.getElementsByClassName('content');");

Wait for an element using Selenium webdriver

What is the best way to wait for an element to appear on a web page? I have read that we can use implicit wait and functions like webdriverwait, fluentwait etc and last but not the least thread.sleep()...which i use the most but want to stop using at all.
My scenario:
User logs in to a website...website checks the credentials and provides an offer to the user in the form of an overlay (kind of popup but not a separate window). I need to verify text on the the overlay.
There is a time gap between user signing in and the overlay getting displayed. what is the best approach so that selenium waits only till the time the element is not visible. As the overlay is not a separate page but part of the main page, implicit wait does not work at all.
All suggestions are welcome...:)
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("optionsBuilderSelect_input")));
I'm a professional scraper (http://nitinsurana.com) I've written 30+ softwares using selenium and I've never faced any such issue, anyways above is a sample code.
All I can think of is that what until condition has to be checked because many a times elements are already visible, but they are not clickable and things like that. I guess you should give different options a try and I hope you'll find the one required.
Always start by using a implicit wait. I think Selenium defaults to 5 seconds and so if you do a driver.findElement(), the implication is that it will wait up to 5 seconds. That should do it. If you are experiencing a scenario where the time it takes is unpredictable, then use FluentWait (with the same 5 second timeout) but also using the .ignoring method and wrap that inside a while loop . Here is the basic idea:
int tries=0;
while ( tries < 3 ) {
//fluent wait (with .ignoring) inside here
tries ++1;
}
public boolean waitForElement(WebElement ele, String xpath, int seconds) throws InterruptedException{
//returns true if the xpath appears in the webElement within the time
//false when timed out
int t=0;
while(t<seconds*10){
if(ele.findElements(By.xpath(xpath)).size()>0)
return true;
else{
Thread.sleep(100);
t++;
continue;
}
}
System.out.println("waited for "+seconds+"seconds. But couldn't find "+xpath+ " in the element specified");
return false;
}
You could wait for the presence of the element to appear as follows:
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("someId")));