I need to test an output of a page without making it pop up, but just go to the url.
If you have a pdf or word export link how would you test its contents.
The answer is to step outside of Selenium
To test a URL without making the window pop-up, consider downloading the contents of the URL without Selenium. I'm assuming you are using Java, so look into downloading the content of a URL in java. It also depends on what you are testing, this works if you want to just check if a URL is broken or not for example.
To check the contents of a PDF or a Word file, you also can't use Selenium. You will need to find a Java library to parse the PDF and Word files and then use that to read the content.
As you can see both require a bit of research on your part. The key is not getting hung up on Selenium and making use of the rest of the programming language.
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I need to simulate file download on chrome browser and below links points to solutions which is what I'm looking for.
http://ardesco.lazerycode.com/index.php/2012/07/how-to-download-files-with-selenium-and-why-you-shouldnt/
https://github.com/Ardesco/Ebselen/blob/master/ebselen-core/src/main/java/com/lazerycode/ebselen/customhandlers/FileDownloader.java
I'm not able to use this code as it requires attribute and in my case button has a reactid which triggers a end point call. Please refer to attached screen shot.
Can somebody please tell what changes I need to do to make code in above links work ?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Vikram
To be able to download a link to need to find a way to get the link. The best way to do that is to talk to the developer that wrote the code and find out how it works.
Clicking on the button will trigger some sort of JavaScript event, you need to know what that event is so that you can replicate it to get the download link.
Bear in mind that this is probably not a test that's worth performing in Selenium., it's probably a unit test in JavaScript land.
Since you can't get the link of the downloadable file from the html and verify the https status code because in your case - the downloading happens by javascript method
The only way to verify downloading in your case is to actually click the element and verify that the file was downloaded.
You also need to set the capability in ChromeDriver to download to default directory without asking.
Chrome Web Driver download files
I've been trying to figure this one out for about a week now and just
can't come up with a good solution. So, I figured I would see if anyone could help me out. Here's one of the links that I'm trying to scrape:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/alaskawcanada&CISOPTR=491&CISOBOX=1&REC=4
I right-clicked to copy image location.
This is the link that is copied:
(Can't paste this as a link because I'm new)
http:// content (dot) lib (dot) washington (dot) edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/alaskawcanada&CISOPTR=491&DMSCALE=100.00000&DMWIDTH=802&DMHEIGHT=657.890625&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=%20NA3050%20%09AWC0644%20AWC0388%20AWC0074%20AWC0575&REC=4&DMTHUMB=0&DMROTATE=0
There is no clear image URL being displayed. Obviously that's
because the image is hidden behind some type of script. Through trial and
error I found that I can put ".jpg" after the "CISOPTR=491" and then the link becomes an Image URL. The problem is that this is not the high-resolution version of the image. To get to the
high-resolution version I have to change the URL even more. I found a lot of articles #Stackoverflow.com to mention trying to build a script using curl and PHP, I have even tried a few of them with no luck. "491" is the image number and I can change that number to find other images in the same directory. So, scraping a sequence of numbers should be pretty easy. But I'm still a noob at scraping and this one is kicking my butt. Here's what I've tried.
Get remote image using cURL then resample
also tried this.
http://psung.blogspot.com/2008/06/using-wget-or-curl-to-download-web.html
I also have Outwit Hub, and Site Sucker, but they don't recognize the URL as an image file and fo they just pass right ove it. I used SiteSucker overnight and it download 40,000 files and only 60 were jpegs, none of which were the ones I wanted.
The other thing I keep running into, is the files I have been able to download manually, the filename is always either getfile.exe or showfile.exe and then if I manually add ".jpg" as the extension I can view the image locally.
How can I reached the original high-res image file, and automate the download process so that I can scrape a couple hundred of these images?
I right-clicked to copy image location. This is the link that is
copied:
You noticed the title has ".exe" in there. Look at the stuff in the query string:
DMSCALE=100.00000
DMWIDTH=802
DMHEIGHT=657.890625
DMX=0
DMY=0
DMTEXT=%20NA3050%20%09AWC0644%20AWC0388%20AWC0074%20AWC0575
REC=4
DMTHUMB=0
DMROTATE=0
Strongly implies the original source of this image is in a database or something and it is being passed thru a server-side filter (not sure if that is what you meant by "some kind of script"). Ie, this is dynamically generated content, not static, and the same caveats apply as would to dynamic text content: you have to figure out what instructions to provide the server to get it to cough up what you want. Which you pretty much have in front of you...if SiteSucker or whatever won't deal with it properly, scrape the address yourself using an HTML parser.
I am using Symfony1.4 with doctrine. I want to save a invoice template to PDF. How can i do this.
I use for this sfTCPDFPlugin
For converting HTML to PDF, I get the best results with Wkhtmltopdf. Because it uses the Webkit rendering engine (the same used in Chrome and Safari for example), the results are exactly the way you can see the HTML rendered in those browsers.
It is in fact just a binary you can run from the command-line, but an example PHP wrapper class is available from the website. I also did not find it very hard to write a wrapper class myself with some added functionality.
I am using FCK Editor 2.6.4 and having problems trying to embed a (non-YouTube) video into a content area.
I found this previous question / post:
[EDIT -- as a new user, I am only able to post one link in this post. The post in question is titled, "Can I embed video using FCK Editor?")
and have investigated all of the proposed solutions, but none of them work properly:
1 -- Using the "Embed Flash" button in the control panel almost works. However, the video I am attempting to add contains a querystring with parameters, like this:
http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1275795594&f=mGQklEgxXKs9vfEIdGnWsA&d=132&m=p&r=w&i=m&ct=Homes%20in%20Eagle%20Creek&cu=http://hometoindy.com/eagle-creek-real-estate.php&options=
and in using the Flash embed tool, it encodes all of the "&" characters to "& amp;", thus breaking them. If it were just for me, I could manually change them back, but clients who use this will not know how to do that.
2 -- I have installed the YouTube video plugin, and it works great... for YouTube. But it cannot be used to embed non-YouTube videos (it automatically changes the URL to YouTube, no matter what).
3 -- I have installed the EmbedMovies plugin, but it throws a javascript error when attempting to add a video file (such as the above) to a page. (The EmbedMovies plugin page on SourceForge says it has been updated for FCK Editor 2.6, but it does not work.)
4 -- Pasting directly into the editor window (of course) does not work. The only way I've been able to make this work is by pasting into the Source panel, and this is not a good option for clients who are not familiar with HTML.
So, is there a good, working plugin for FCK editor that will allow me to quickly and easily embed a video such as the one above into a content area? I don't need to be able to see or preview it in the editor window; I just need it to work when the page is loaded on the front end.
Thanks!
Given the question you found, and scarcity of answers to that, chances are that the plugin you want does not exist.
If your videos are actually from one, though non-standard, source, I can only repeat my advice from that topic - write your own plugin. I have code of plugin I wrote linked there, it should be easy to change it to accomodate your needs.
I need to create a screenshot of the page by providing a page URL to the command line tool. I found the following application: Convert HTML To Image. This tool is OK but want a more flexible application. I need to have ability to perform the following:
Go to the following page.
Click button.
Take a screenshot and save it.
I want to create an application that will test a site by going by URL, take a shots, and then send the images to the email.
Does anybody has an experience in solving such problems?
Watin can capture screenshots:
ie.CaptureWebPageToFile("c:\tmp\watin main page.jpg");
More info:
http://watin.sourceforge.net/releasenotes-1-2-0-4000.html
http://fwdnug.com/blogs/ddodgen/archive/2008/06/19/watin-api-capturewebpagetofile.aspx
I am a contributor to the WatiN project and the author of the WatiN Test Recorder. To do what you want, I'd suggest using something like csExWB2 (http://code.google.com/p/csexwb2/). The demo will give you the basic browser, and you can add screen shots where you like. Emailing is not covered, but that should be fairly easy.
I know this is very old post but i want to leave a message for visitor of this post.
PhantomJS is one option (http://www.phantomjs.org).
According to the WatiN features page:
Supports creating screenshots of webpages
I would direct you to more specifical documentation, but the documentation web doesn't work well with Firefox, so I can't search it.