$ opera-developer -remote-debugging-port=1212Īnd here is the code for controlling Opera browser: from selenium import webdriverįrom import service Launching my opera-developer with the port number: Putting the file in operadriver_linu圆4/operadriver to my python project folder:

Selecting and downloading operadriver_linu圆4.zip from This browser is very popular in Russia because of some unique features. But since the calls are the same, lessons of this course are still more than useful.Īnd despite the fact that Selenium is usually used with Firefox, I tried to use it with Chromium-based Opera. Examples of WebDriver usage are written in Java, and I wanted to use Python. After reading this, I finally decided that the Selenium WebDriver suited me best. In the first part you can find a detailed description of Selenium components and the project history. Guys from Guru99 have wrote me a letter about their free course about Selenium. And this can be done with Selenium WebDriver. You can view them as some pictures, as SikuliX does (“ SikuliX: the last chance for automation“, or as some elements of code, as Selenium IDE does (“ Selenium, SikuliX and Facebook posting“).īut it would much better to control the browser itself from the Python scripts.

In this case, you may want to automate somehow the work on the highest level, with the graphical elements of the site. However, this is sometimes so difficult and confusing, especially when the site owners are actively fighting with automation attempts.

The right way to automate a web application is, certainly, to understand how this application works, by using burp (see “ Burp Suite Free Edition and NTLM authentication in ASP.net applications“) for example, retrieve all necessary requests and learn how to use them.

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