selenium-python-helium
pyppeteer
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3,696 | 3,433 | |
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6 months ago | 28 days ago | |
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MIT License | MIT License |
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selenium-python-helium
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Autotab – Boring AI Agents for real world tasks
I don't get why people still use XPaths, CSS selectors or HTML IDs to identify elements, even when they are "recorded". Please please please just use my https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium instead. It makes so much more sense.
- Selenium-Python but Lighter: Helium
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Automating some process with PyAutoGui?
You can, though it might not be the best tool for this. Automation of web entry is better done with selenium, or my favorite variation helium.
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Would you be interested in POM generator for Selenium?
Regarding automatic selectors: check out my open source library https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium.
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Python Selenium Can't Grab CSS_Selector TEXT
quick example https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium
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Beginner scraping question for beautiful soup after series of 'clicks' on webpage
If this all fails you'll have to fall back on a web driver like selenium or one of its wrappers like helium.
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Simplest code to load webpage in selenium, plaintext dump and send actions to certain elements
Simplest would probably be not using Selenium directly, but a wrapper like helium. Most of its functions you'd need are listed here.
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PyAutoGUI with CSS Selector
If you're talking about CSS I reckon you want to click/input things on a website inside your browser. In this case you would use a web driver which can automate a web browser like Chrome or Firefox. Something like Helium, Selenium or pyppeteer.
- Playwright-test – cross-browser end-to-end test suite with Playwright
- Lookup ERROR while trying to log in instagram using Helium/Selenium
pyppeteer
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Pyppeteer Tutorial: The Ultimate Guide to Using Puppeteer with Python
The latest version of Pyppeteer, i.e., 1.0.2, can also be installed by executing pip3 install -U git+https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer@dev on the terminal.
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Thoughts on AsyncIO
Having async baked into Python both as a keyword and standard library has vastly opened up the number of use cases async will be used in where it is appropriate, one of my favorite libraries pyppeteer would have not existed in the easy nice way it can be used without asyncio: https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer
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Do you have a tip to bypass cookie expiration when scraping a webpage?
Yes, this is scraping. You need a legit new cookie issued by the site. The solution is to automate the going to get the cookies part. The most straight forward way to do this is probably using a headless browser through something like Selenium or pyppeteer.
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will requests-html library work as selenium
Last I checked, pyppeteer wasn't a thing anymore, and I haven't tried Playwright but if it has a headless mode, thats what you want so you don't have a browser open.
- What have you automated with python?
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Getting this error while installing pyppeteer
pip install -U git+https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer@dev
- Note, the first time you ever run the render() method, it will download Chromium into your home directory (e.g. ~/.pyppeteer/). This only happens once.
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Trying to find a way to automate button clicking on work program without image use
The normal Puppeteer package is JavaScript, but I do see that there's a Python port called pyppeteer. I can't vouch for it specifically, but I imagine it's similarly easy to use as the JS version.
- Scrape JSON from Network Traffic using Selenium
- How to start Web scraping with python?
What are some alternatives?
undetected-chromedriver - Custom Selenium Chromedriver | Zero-Config | Passes ALL bot mitigation systems (like Distil / Imperva/ Datadadome / CloudFlare IUAM)
Scrapy - Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
SeleniumBase - 📊 Python's all-in-one framework for web crawling, scraping, testing, and reporting. Supports pytest. UC Mode provides stealth. Includes many tools.
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
helium - Selenium-python but lighter: Helium is the best Python library for web automation. [Moved to: https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium]
playwright-python - Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library.
captcha_bypass - Captcha bypassing methods for Selenium
requests - A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
pyleniumio - Bring the best of Selenium and Cypress into a single Python package
selectolax - Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines (fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors).