I am forced to use a RPA software and C# scripts at my current job to automate a website. Basically everything worked fine until i had to handle a webpage dialog box like the one found on this post!
The dialog box pops up when clicking a button and it seems to have some javascript functionality behind.
I have to say that using the selenium webdriver switchTo() method allows me to handle the popup, get the htmlDocument and complete my task. However, I am forced to use this RPA software which can use its own browser or the Internet Explorer browser, therefore can't use the webdriver from the Selenium library.
Is there any other way of handling this kind of popups? Maybe another library that gives me the Selenium functionality? The most important thing is being able to read the htmlDocument in order to have access to all the webdialog elements (e.g. radio buttons, checkbox, searchbox etc.)
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I have successfully loaded my chrome profile with selenium that has pre-installed extensions.
The extension in question is called Private Internet Access, but i have tried others and cannot communicate with them
I am trying to figure out how i can open the extension below and enter username&password and click login button. I have tried finding the elements in by id and class but it doesnt find them. Can someone point me down the right line for this. Thanks
I've not had the ability to try this - however I've done a lot of work with Selenium and I've created my own chrome extension.
That extension popup in the top right actually a different web page. You won't be able to interact with it due to how it's presented, but you can navigate to it.
Try this:
Open up your extension, right click anywhere and select Inspect. This will open up devtools for the popup.
In devtools, go to the console and type document.url. This will give you the URL of that popup page. (you'll also see it at the top of the title bar)
That gibberish-looking bit in the middle doesn't change - it's your chrome extension identifier. From when I created my extension and 18 months worth of updates (including migrating from chrome extension manifest v2 to v3) it has not changed for me. I think you'll be safe to use it.
Go to that URL to make sure it works. In my case it's chrome-extension://ojhcleddagaoaplflbafhpekcciikdop/popup.html
You'll notice you'll lose some of the page styling compared to the popup. When you design the popup you give it fixed dimensions - when you open it as a normal webpage, you lose that and everything gets stretched.
Finally - for your automation - put that chrome-extension:\\ url as the first step in your selenium script and do your sign in. Then, carry on with the rest of your test.
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I am using Selenium to automate a website. First, I open the main website with C#.
Then, I manually click to open new windows from the main site. Now, I want to scrape the data of these new windows. This is not an issue. The problem lies in the fact that Selenium seems to need a window to be focused to scrape it. I use the SwitchTo method currently before scraping. When you switch, the new windows pop to the front and steal focus from other windows. Is there a way to scrape a window without giving it focus?
Saying that “Selenium requires focus when scraping a page” is a gross oversimplification at best, and a complete misassignment if responsibility at worst. Whether a driver used by Selenium to automate a page requires focus is highly dependent on the driver’s implementation. You haven’t said what browser you’re using, but if it’s Chrome or Firefox, those implementations are created and maintained by the browser vendors (Google and Mozilla, respectively).
There are alternatives in both cases, as both browsers officially support a “headless” mode, which can be used with Selenium. Note, however, that use of that mode would require you to automate the steps you’re currently doing manually.
Answering straight, No Selenium can't scrape a window without the required focus.
It's not only Selenium needs focus. The WebElements with whom you intend to interact with, needs to be within the Viewport
Update:
As per your comment if you want to work through an alternatives to Selenium that wouldn't require focus the Answer is Beautiful Soup through Selenium Python Clients using urllib.request module.
[edit] It is a requirement that the webpage spawn and open in IE and allow user manual interaction after the programmatic actions have completed.[/edit]
I've seen a lot of code examples online about opening webpages or filling in webpage textboxes and getting a return value without ever opening them visibly.
I would like to open a webpage in IE, fill in a few textbox buttons
and then click the submit button and view the results visibly.
I am able to do this with a dll called Selenium, but I do not want to use a 3rd party application and it seems that WebBrowser() should be able to do this?
I can post my failed code examples if that would help.
Thanks.
Maybe this qould fit better as a comment, but I don't have enoigh reputation.
Do you know how HTTP-Forms work?
It would probably be easier to send a HTTP-Request to the target of the form you want to fill, including the parameters you would like to fill into the form.
So you don't need any WebBrowser or similar, just a simple HttpWebRequest object, where you specity the target, the method (very likely POST) and the data you'd like to send.
You can use the webbrowser control in Winforms. It is possible to access every DOM object of the website using the control. No need to open the IE externally.
You just need to specify the webbrowser URL as your link.
Then, fill the textboxes with code,
BrowserID.Document.GetElementById("TextboxID").SetAttribute("Value", "NewVaue")
Also, you can click on the button using InvokeMember("click").
There are lots of stuff using WebBrowser. You can learn it here.
I have a bunch of webpages where I need to grab some product information but the webpages are all written using javascript. So there will be something like
<a href="javascript:__getInfo('content_abc')">Product Name<a>
And once that's clicked all the page's content will change (but not the html address). How can I programmatically execute that script and get all the loaded content through a C# script?
While this is the wrong approach to your problem, there is a solution that might work.
By using automated testing tools, such as Selenium, it is possible to use the web driver interface to take control of a web browser and interact with elements on the screen, click buttons and check for results.
I'm using a standard WebBrowser control to perform various automated web requests. I am aware of the default IE 7 setting unless changed by registry, which I have done, and now use a mainly functional version of IE 10 embedded within my program.
Unfortunately, there are times when I need to click JS buttons to add data to the displayed webpage, and other times when there are Modal popups that require me to input information. Webbrowser chokes on this, and for the button, and popup, does nothing.
I am aware of the route of using ScriptInvoke to send my data, but I wondered if there is any way I can avoid this and just use the WebBrowser control as if it where a normal browser, that accepts the two described functions.
Thanks to all,
Stan.