Using Selenium with AutoHotkey- Cross browser automation!

[Xtra]

You could very easily set the user & pass elements and click the login button.
Logging into a site is no different than automating anything else on a website.
By doing this you wont have to rely on cookies which will eventually expire. Just a thought.

[Joe Glines]

Try this:
After the Selenium version of Chrome loads, use the same process you did for your regular chrome executable to get the path of the current profile (put "chrome://version/" in the url). Take a look at the "Profile Path" that it is using. Is it what you've defined in your script?

If it is, use explorer to navigate to that folder and verify you have a "cookies" file. When I opened mine I can find LinkedIn.com (which is what i'd logged into for testing of this)

[CH HAN]

Joe Glines / It works! I copied and used profile path after had created Chrome window by Selenium. The profile paths of Chrome opened by manually and Selenium are different. Thank you!

Xtra / Your code also works! Thank you!

[Joe Glines]

That's great!

[CH HAN]

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Hi, I've tried to login a webpage but I couldn't. I think it's because of the class name of a blank which I want to put in my login ID. it has spaces between letters of it. The class name is 'ng-pristine ng-invalid ng-touched' And my code is like this

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driver.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('value', 'abcd')", driver.findElementsByClass("ng-pristine ng-invalid ng-touched"))

AHK pops up an error message that InvalidSelectorError, I attached a screen shot file of that. I don't know how I can handle it.

[Xtra]

You can always use Xpath or CSS

Xpath working Example (minus real creds edit to your own)

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driver.FindElementByXPath("/html/body/fg-root/div[1]/fg-public-layout/fg-auth/div[1]/div/div/div[1]/div/div/form/div[1]/input").SendKeys("abcd")    ; Username
driver.FindElementByXPath("/html/body/fg-root/div[1]/fg-public-layout/fg-auth/div[1]/div/div/div[1]/div/div/form/div[2]/input").SendKeys("1234")    ; Password
driver.FindElementByXPath("/html/body/fg-root/div[1]/fg-public-layout/fg-auth/div[1]/div/div/div[1]/div/div/form/div[4]/button").click()            ; Button

HTH

[CH HAN]

Gosh, it works. I didn't know about Xpath. Thank you!!!!

[CH HAN]

Hi,

Anybody knows how to keep browser open after end of calling function? I have made some codes using Selenium in a function, and I call it from main.ahk file. I want to keep the browser which I use in the function after end of calling the function but it closes automatically when the function is closed. I've googled about this and many people suggested that using sleep(900000), but I can't use that because I want to process other task while the used browser opened. Anybody has any solution about it? And can i reuse the browser in other function? Thank you.

[Xtra]

Put this at top of the script: (Autoexec section)

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Global driver

[CH HAN]

It's simple. I'll try that. Thank you. But I still don't know the way to leave a browser opened after end of scripts. I should know that first to reuse the browser.

[tmplinshi]

Nice tutorial!

I want to add a useful tips here:

Connect to existing Chrome window just like WBGet()!

Step 1. Start Chrome with command line: chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9222
(Be sure to kill all running Chome windows that didn't start with --remote-debugging-port=9222)

Step 2. Open some webpages manually, then run the following code:

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driver := ChromeGet()
MsgBox, % driver.Window.Title "`n" driver.Url

ChromeGet(IP_Port := "127.0.0.1:9222") {
	driver := ComObjCreate("Selenium.ChromeDriver")
	driver.SetCapability("debuggerAddress", IP_Port)
	driver.Start()
	return driver
}

F12::
	driver.Start()
	MsgBox, % driver.Window.Title "`n" driver.Url
return

[Xtra]

@tmplinshi Thanks! That should fix the one thing i didnt like about selenium.

[Joe Glines]

@tmplinshi- Great work!!! I tested this and was able to get it to connect to an open Chrome window. Having said that the second part of your code (under F12 hotkey) doesn't work for me but I swapped it with the following and it worked fine.

Any idea on how to do this with FireFox and/or IE?

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F12::
driver:= ComObjCreate("Selenium.CHROMEDriver") ;Chrome driver
driver.Get("http://the-automator.com/")
MsgBox, % driver.Window.Title "`n" driver.Url
return

[hoppfrosch]

Any idea on how to do this with FireFox and/or IE?

For Firefox we might be able to use the same mechanism via remote debugging port .... see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... erver_port

Haven't tested it!

[CH HAN]

Wow! Now I can use an existing browser and leave it opened after end of codes. Thank you!!

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UsingAnExistingBrowser()

Exitapp


UsingAnExistingBrowser(){
	
	URL = http://the-automator.com/

	run % "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9222" ( winExist("ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1") ? " --new-window " : " " ) URL 

	driver := ChromeGet()

	driver.findElementsByName("s").item[1].SendKeys("hello world")	
	driver.findElementsByName("s").item[1].SendKeys(driver.Keys.ENTER) ;http://seleniumhome.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-to-press-keyboard-in-selenium.html
	MsgBox pause

	return
}


ChromeGet(IP_Port := "127.0.0.1:9222") {
	driver := ComObjCreate("Selenium.ChromeDriver")
	driver.SetCapability("debuggerAddress", IP_Port)
	driver.Start()
	return driver
}

[CH HAN]

Hi,

I want to click mouse right button on a element of a web page to select one of menu, so I googled and visited many pages, but almost solution was coded by Java, but because I don't know other computer languages I couldn't get it. I tried some codes, but it was not working.

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	driver.FindElementByXPath("//*[@id="contents-body"]/div/div[2]/table/tbody/tr[8]/td[2]/a").contextClick().build().perform()
	; driver.FindElementByXPath("//*[@id="contents-body"]/div/div[2]/table/tbody/tr[8]/td[2]/a").rightclick()

I think the answer is on a web page below at a section "13. Context Click (Right Click)", but I can't apply it to AHK

http://seleniumhome.blogspot.com/2013/1 ... -code.html

[Xtra]

@ CH HAN You can combine your 2 SendKeys lines into one like this:

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driver.findElementsByName("s").item[1].SendKeys("hello world").SendKeys(driver.Keys.ENTER)

[CH HAN]

@ Xtra
Thank you for quick answer. Your code is good. It can help me save code, but I want to 'CLICK' mouse right button on a specific element of a web page

And there is another problem (I changed my code above of my post while you uploaded your post.) which an error message is that The following variable name contains an illegal character: "body""

I added ` before " but it's not working.

[Xtra]

Use single quotes for xpath id like this:

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"//*[@id='contents-body']"

[CH HAN]

@ Xtra
Thank you, but it's not working...

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URL = http://the-automator.com/

run % "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9222" ( winExist("ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1") ? " --new-window " : " " ) URL 

driver := ChromeGet()

; To click 'Web Scraping'
driver.FindElementByXPath("//*[@id='menu-item-1662']/a/span").click()



ChromeGet(IP_Port := "127.0.0.1:9222") {
	driver := ComObjCreate("Selenium.ChromeDriver")
	driver.SetCapability("debuggerAddress", IP_Port)
	driver.Start()
	return driver
}