I'm making an application that can find an item on a website if the item name and colour matches the one set inside the application.
If the item name is set as "backpack" and colour set as "green" the application should find a match on the page and click the link. The website is this: Click
I would prefer doing this in C# with http requests or something similar. I would also do PhantomJS if anyone has a better solution using it.
You can use selenium, it basically allows you to act like a user with actual web browser. http://www.seleniumhq.org/
You can do something like mentioned below with the help of XPath:
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.supremenewyork.com/shop/all/bags");
var backpack= driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[contains(#class,'inner-article')]//h1//a[contains(., 'Backpack') or contains(., 'Backpack')]"));
var colorGreen = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[contains(#class,'inner-article')]//p//a[contains(., 'Acid Green') or contains(., 'Acid Green')]"));
if (backpack.Text == "Backpack" && colorGreen.Text == "Acid Green")
colorGreen.Click();
It is a tested code, it successfully finds the required values within tags, clicks and moves to that page.
Hope it helps.
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i use the wpf webbrowser control to show manual generated html code via WebBrowser.NavigateToString() method. In this html code there are many manual links like the following example:
Go to Mark 1
When i click on this link in the html document thr browser jump to it. It works correctly. What i want is to jump to the marker via c# code. I know that the WebBrowser.Document Property is a IHtmlDocument from Microsoft.mshtml.dll. I cast it an the enumarte through all IHtmlAncorElements. The i find the Ancor via name and cast it back to IHtmlElement. So i have the IHtmlElement object but i dont no how can i cation the link like also in this mock-code:
var ancorElement = ((IHtmlDocument)WebBrowser.Document).all.Cast<IHtmlElement>().Where(element => elment is IHtmlAncorElement).FirstOrDefault(element => element.href.equals("#marker_1"));
if (ancorElement != null) /* so i don't know the right way */ ancorElement.Click() or ancorElement.Action()
So i hope any know a way to run the link via c# code!
Best regards
Daniel
if (ancorElement != null)
WpExample.Navigate("your URL");
Is this what you mean? i have found it hard to understand your question but to navigate to different URL using WPF you can do it this way?
We have automated a few test cases using the Ranorex automation framework for a Silverlight web application. These test cases involve clicking buttons in order to invoke certain messages on the screen. In order to grab the button on the screen, we first create an Ranorex button object and then point it to the appropriate element using Ranorexpath. Then, we use the RanorexButton.Click() event to click the button. However, this event is unreliable. It works sometimes and at other times the button is not clicked. When the button is not clicked, we have to run the test case again from the start. What are we doing wrong? If this is a known problem of ranorex, please suggest workarounds.
I was facing the same problem but I am able to resolve the problem by introducing a Validate.Exists(infoObject) just before the click. Please make sure that you pass infoObject of your button or any element in Validate.Exists API.
Example:
Validate.Exists(repo.MyApp.LoginBtnInfo);
var button = repo.MyApp.LoginBtn;
button.Click();
With regards,
Avinash Nigam
I haven't heard about such a problem with Ranorex yet, maybe this is just a timing issue.
You could add a Validate.Exists(yourButton) right before the click, this ensures that the click is performed after the button was successfully loaded.
If it is a WebElement you could also use the PerformClick() method instead of the normal Click() method.
There are also different methods which will ensure that the button is in the visible area and has focus, like the EnsureVisible() or the Focus() method.
You will find the available methods of the used adapter in the online API of Ranorex.
If the Button is not within the area you can see without scrolling, you can use a
var button = repo.Buttons.button1;
button.EnsureVisible();
button.Click();
In this way the button is forced to be watched.
It might as well be an issue with the xpath and element Id-s.
If you have changing element Id-s even when the page is navigated away from and moved back (for example we have this issue with SAP related components) you might need to make a more robust xPath path variable using regular expressions.
Try to find object and parts of the path that do not change (eg. "iFrame id="MainContent"" or "btn id="ID_XXXX_Search_Button"") - ofcourse this will only help if the issue is within this.
Ranorex Regular Expression info can be found here: http://www.ranorex.com/support/user-guide-20/ranorexpath.html#c3294
A quick example of what I'm talking about:
Let's say we have an input field that has a changing ID in it's name:
US_EL.ID_F2B49DB60EE1B68131BD662A21B3432B:V_MAIN._046A-r
And I know that the part in the Id that doesn't change is:
:V_MAIN._046A-r
I can create a path for this searching the element by the ending of the elements' id that doesn't change using regular expression:
/dom[#domain='test.example.com']//iframe[#'identifier']//iframe[#'identifier2']//input[#id**~'^**:V_MAIN._046A-r']
The bold part will specify to search for an input element with an Id that ends with ":V_MAIN._046A-r".
An issue that might arrise from this is if you have elements using partially the same names you might get multiple elements returned for the same path. So it's wise to add a few more certain points to the path (eg. "iframe[#'identifier2']") when this issue arrises.
I am writing a simple personal app that has a browser control and I want it to automatically "Refresh" gmail to check it more often than it does by default. There are monkey scripts that do this but I'm trying to add my personal style to it.
Anyhow, I've looked around and found everything but what I can do in csharp using the browser control.
I found this:
// Link the ID from the web form to the Button var
theButton = webBrowser_Gmail.Document.GetElementById("Refresh");
// Now do the actual click.
theButton.InvokeMember("click");
But it comes back with null in 'theButton' so it doesn't invoke anything.
Anyone have any suggestions?
It's been awhile since I've used JavaScript, but given the other answers and comments that there is no real ID associated with the element, could you do something like the following:
Search all Div's with an attribute of Role == 'Button' and an InnerHtml == 'Refresh'.
Once the correct InnerHtml is found, get the Element.
Invoke the click on the found Element.
Again, this may be blowing smoke, but thought I'd throw it out there.
edit: Just realized you are doing this with C# and a browser control; however, the concept would still be the same.
The best suggestion I could give you at this point involves an existing API that is used for .NET web browser based automation:
http://watin.org/
Since the div tag with the desired button really only seems to identify itself with the class name, you could use the Find.BySelector(“”) code included with the most recent version of watin.
I'm doing an automation program. I load a webpage into my windows form and load it in WebBrowser control. Then, I need to click on a link from the WebBrowser programatically. How can I do this? for example:
Google Me
Facebook Me
The above are 2 different conditions. The first element does not have an id attribute while the second one does. Any idea on how to click each programmatically?
You have to find your element first, by its ID or other filters:
HtmlElement fbLink = webBrowser.Document.GetElementByID("fbLink");
And to simulate "click":
fbLink.InvokeMember("click");
An example for finding your link by inner text:
HtmlElement FindLink(string innerText)
{
foreach (HtmlElement link in webBrowser.Document.GetElementsByTagName("a"))
{
if (link.InnerText.Equals("Google Me"))
{
return link;
}
}
}
You need a way to automate the browser then.
One way to do this is to use Watin (https://sourceforge.net/projects/watin/). It allows you to write a .Net program that controls the browser via a convenient object model. It is mainly used to write automated tests for web pages, but it can also be used to control the browser.
If you don't want to control the browser this way then you could write a javascript that you include on your page that does the clicking, but I doubt that is what you are after.
We are using the WebBrowser control in c# winforms and need to be able to get information about the Url the cursor is positioned on.
So we have a web page in design mode, which has multiple urls, when the cursor is over one I would like to call a method which would return the id of the link.
Thanks
You can use the IHTMLCaret to get the cursor position from there using IMarkupPointer you can get the element in the current scope.
The webBrowser control has a Document property which has a Links collection. Each Link is an HTMLElement which has events you can tap into. Again, I'm not sure what you mean "cursor" because in the web world, unless if you're in a textbox, there really isn't a "cursor" (which is what I meant to ask in my comment) but you can tap into the MouseOver event and other stuff like that.
Example:
foreach (HtmlElement element in this.webBrowser1.Document.Links)
{
element.MouseOver += (o, ex) =>
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.ToElement.GetAttribute("HREF"));
};
}
This will print out the actual URL that the mouse is over.
You can have a look at this article - Hosting a web browser component in a C# winform - which explains several ways to perform that. or go directly to this one - Hosting a webpage inside a Windows Form - Basically what you need to do is handle the Click of the DOM object inside the COM WebBrowser of IE. You achieve this by handling the Js events inside your C# code.
I remember this kind of customization must be done using the AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser COM object instead of the System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser Class from the newer versions of the .Net Framework.
I could send you more data about this, I did it some project, just give me time to find it ;). In the mean time try with those links.
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