I would need to start a chrome session login to a page then open a url and close chrome.
I could do this in ie but the page is not ie. optimised. I dont seem to be able to automate firefox or chrome . Any ideas ?
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Any reason why the page needs to be accessed by a web browser? It would be easier to create a web request in c# and access the page that way. Unless you need this for some kind of integration testing.
You can use Selenium. It has drivers for IE, firefox and chrome. If you need a tutorial how to start you can watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9iFvpK10fw
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I'm writing a C# scraper so I can download my delivery receipts. I'm trying to use findelement and sendkeys/click to login to the usps website https://reg.usps.com/entreg/LoginAction_input .
When I attempt this method, I get an invalid login error. I know the code works because I login other sites using the same method or even through JAVASCRIPTEXECUTOR.
In my current workaround, I have to TAB over to the input field and call inputsimulator. However, I want to make my application headless which will not play well with InputSimulator as it as not tied to the selenium driver browser so I would really like to use sendkeys or another alternative. I have also tried to use javascript executor without any luck. Please help. Thank you.
I'm developing a software on C# which has to get info from a website which the user opens in chrome, the user has to input some data and then the website returns a list of different items.
What I want is a way to be able to access to the source code of the page in order to get the info, I cant open the web myself as it doesnt show anything because I didnt input any data, so I need to get it directly from chrome.
How can I achieve this ? A chrome extension ? Or can I access to chrome directly from my software ?
Off the top of my head, I don't know any application that gets data directly from an open instance of Chrome. You'd have to write your own Chrome extension.
Alternatively, you can open the web browser from your application initially.
You can look into these libraries for doing so:
Watin (My personal favourite)
Selenium
Awesomium (You'd have to roll out your own UI, it's invisible)
Cef
Essential Objects Web Browser
EDIT: I didn't think about using QA tools as the actual browser hook as #TheAnathema mentions. That would probably work for your needs.
You're going to need to create it as Chrome extension if you must be dependent on the user actually going to a specific web site (i.e. not being able to do the requests yourself with either Selenium or standard web requests in Python).
The reason why a Chrome extension would be required is because think of how bad it could be for any software to easily read the pages you browse. Banking, medical, email, etc. could all be accessed anonymously from any process if Google allowed any outside process to tap into the web page.
Even Chrome extensions have to ask for permission to be able to do what they want, but at least it is software the user knowingly installed and agreed to the permissions.
A quick search yielded this example of modifying a page's HTML with a Chrome extension: https://blog.lateral.io/2016/04/create-chrome-extension-modify-websites-html-css/
It sounds like you want to do web scraping. Here's a good tutorial to get you started: HTML Scraping.
And this answer has a good example of how to scrape data from a website where you need to submit a form to get access to the data.
i have created web browser control in c#. I used to open .net website into this control. Once page is completely loaded.i was using cookies of this browser control to create httprequest and used to execute request. I used to get data which was needed for me.
But all of sudden this stopped working. I checkd to see what happened then i found that issues are with cookies are being formed throught browser control.For example, if i use page url on IE browser and then get cookie and supply it to httprequest. It works good. But same thing with web browser control is not working now.
Another thing, Forget about httprequest, Download from webbrowser control itselft is also failing. But its working in IE. What could be stopping it to download fail in web browser control and work in IE.
Dont understand how.please help.
This issue is not with the cookies. it is with the browser emulation. By default webbrowser control take IE emulation. but if you need to mention which browser version you want control to use. By using registry.
I emulated IE to my application by changing registry information. and it started working.
I have a Watin browser session named ie. I've ran into a situation where I need Selenium's help to execute an action. Is there any way to quickly tell Selenium to use the browser associated with Watin session ie? (I'm working in a child thread).
I wanted to make an application wherein you specify the name of the websites, your username and password and that application automatically logs in to all your accounts in the specified websites. I have done this using windows form application, using a web browser. But i wanted my application to open all these websites in chrome and log it in there. Plz Help
I'd check out the chrome API failing that
Look into getting a handle to the window through window API calls
But why not just a chrome extension?!? Miles simpler
Have a look at Selenium WebDriver
Doing a quick Google search for "chrome C# api" turned up a number of results I think you may find relevant.
I thought the following were particularly promising, if you're willing to accept a few concessions:
Automating Chrome Browser from C#
ChromeDevTools; a C# Library to interact with Chrome's Developer Tools
Chrome Debugging API