Selenium WebDriver
crawlee
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29,331 | 12,222 | |
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2 days ago | 2 days ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Selenium WebDriver
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JS Toolbox 2024: Bundlers and Test Frameworks
Selenium is an extensively used open-source automation framework for web applications. It allows for cross-browser testing by automating browser actions, making it a staple tool for end-to-end testing in diverse web development environments.
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What is Playwright?
While similar to Puppeteer, Cypress, and Selenium, there are some differences. Let’s find out what they are.
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Getting ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'selenium' with Python on Windows
browser.get('http://selenium.dev/')
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Introduction to Cypress and UI Test Automation
Cypress is a next-generation front-end Automation testing tool built for modern web applications. It is a JavaScript-based end-to-end testing framework and is known for faster test execution as compared with other testing tools (like Selenium or Protractor).
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What happened to Selenium .NET documentation?
Removing ExpectedConditions from documentation makes sense since it was removed from the codebase around 2019 already.
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Opinions on changing the default branch name to something other than main or master.
https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium --> trunk
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How to write tests in Django for JavaScript fetch
You won't be able to test the javascript function itself from within python, but you can exercise the front-end code using something like cypress (https://cypress.io) or the older but still respectable selenium (https://selenium.dev).
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Chrome session failing to be created
once you solve this you may run into: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/11750, so add that workaround.
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How to scrape the web with Puppeteer in 2023
Other libraries with similar functionality are Selenium, which is very popular outside the JavaScript world, and Playwright, a younger step-brother of Puppeteer.
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9 Tools you must master to excel as a DevOps Engineer
🔗 https://selenium.dev
crawlee
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How to scrape Amazon products
In this guide, we'll be extracting information from Amazon product pages using the power of TypeScript in combination with the Cheerio and Crawlee libraries. We'll explore how to retrieve and extract detailed product data such as titles, prices, image URLs, and more from Amazon's vast marketplace. We'll also discuss handling potential blocking issues that may arise during the scraping process.
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Automating Data Collection with Apify: From Script to Deployment
Previously, the Apify SDK offered a blend of crawling functionalities and Actor building features. However, a recent update separated these functionalities into two distinct libraries: Crawlee and Apify SDK v3. Crawlee now houses the web scraping and crawling tools, while Apify SDK v3 focuses solely on features specific to building Actors for the Apify platform. This distinction allows for a clear separation of concerns and enhances the development experience for various use cases.
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Launching Crawlee Blog: Your Node.js resource hub for web scraping and automation.
v3.1 added an error tracker for analyzing and summarizing failed requests.
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Anything like scrapy in other languages?
Closest I found was https://crawlee.dev/ for Javascript/Typescript although still seems not on the level of scrapy. I didn't try it.
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What is Playwright?
Also, you can go even further and develop your own web scraper with Crawlee, a Node.js library that helps you pass those challenges automatically using Puppeteer or Playwright. Crawlee helps you build reliable scrapers fast. Quickly scrape data, store it, and avoid getting blocked with headless browsers, smart proxy rotation, and auto-generated human-like headers and fingerprints.
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Best web scraping framework to learn
https://crawlee.dev/ its very good, you can easily run your spiders in cloud with apify, and nodejs/puppeteer has many advantages than python/selenium
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Deep diving into Apify world
Apify is a platform for web scraping that helps the developer starting from the coding, having developed its open-source NodeJs library for web scraping called Crawlee. Then on their platform, you can run and monitor the scrapers and also finally sell your scrapers in their store.
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Build and run your Python web scrapers in the cloud with Apify SDK for Python
You can use our open source tools (not only this one, but also Crawlee for example) to build your scrapers and run them on your computer, and then if you need to run them in the cloud, you can upload them to the Apify platform and run them there. Our free tier is good enough for smaller web scraping and automation projects, and if you need more compute resources or proxies, you can go for one of our paid tiers.
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How to scrape the web with Puppeteer in 2023
Comfortable scraping and crawling with Puppeteer is better done together with another library. This library is called Crawlee, and it's also free and open-source, just like Puppeteer. Crawlee wraps Puppeteer and grants access to all of Puppeteer's functionality, but also provides useful crawling and scraping tools like error handling, queue management, storages, proxies or fingerprints out of the box.
- What's the most advanced, best maintained, most fully featured web scraper for node.js
What are some alternatives?
metamask-extension - :globe_with_meridians: :electric_plug: The MetaMask browser extension enables browsing Ethereum blockchain enabled websites
NectarJS - 🔱 Javascript's God Mode. No VM. No Bytecode. No GC. Just native binaries.
PyAutoGUI - A cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings. Used to programmatically control the mouse & keyboard.
awesome-puppeteer - A curated list of awesome puppeteer resources.
splinter - splinter - python test framework for web applications
rdflib.js - Linked Data API for JavaScript
Selenium Wire - Extends Selenium's Python bindings to give you the ability to inspect requests made by the browser.
jirax - :sunglasses: :computer: Simple and flexible CLI Tool for your daily JIRA activity (supported on all OSes)
locust - Write scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨
teachcode - A tool to develop and improve a student’s programming skills by introducing the earliest lessons of coding.
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
pwa-asset-generator - Automates PWA asset generation and image declaration. Automatically generates icon and splash screen images, favicons and mstile images. Updates manifest.json and index.html files with the generated images according to Web App Manifest specs and Apple Human Interface guidelines.