Using Selenium in the background
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I would suggest try using headless PhantomJs GhostDriver (which is a relatively new thing). As this is the native Selenium Webdriver way of doing it.
Download PhantomJs executables from http://phantomjs.org/download.html.
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS("./phantomjs") # path to phantomjs binary
driver.get("https://ps.rsd.edu/public/")
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("account")
elem.send_keys("Username")
elem2 = driver.find_element_by_name("pw")
elem2.send_keys("Password")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
driver.quit()
Comments
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Serial almost 2 years
I'm using Selenium and chrome webdriver but when I run scripts it opens a window. Is there any way that it can access the internet without the window popping up?
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys driver = webdriver.Chrome() driver.get("https://ps.rsd.edu/public/") elem = driver.find_element_by_name("account") elem.send_keys("Username") elem2 = driver.find_element_by_name("pw") elem2.send_keys("Password") elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN) driver.quit()
For example, this goes to my school's grade site and puts in a username and password but I want to do this without the browser popping up if that's possible.
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Serial about 11 yearsIm getting a long error message here is the end of it:
raise WebDriverException("Unable to start phantomjs with ghostdriver.", e) WebDriverException: Message: 'Unable to start phantomjs with ghostdriver.' ; Screenshot: available via screen
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DJG almost 11 years@ChristianCareaga Can you please say how you figured out how to deal with that error? That's what's coming up for me now. Thanks.
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Serial almost 11 yearsi had to write the full directory to phantomjs i think , but im not sure i wrote this awhile back and ended up doing something else
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Alkanshel over 10 yearsI'm also getting "Unable to start phantomjs with ghostdriver." The dev mentioned in a comment hasn't updated the python 2.7 selenium bindings. They're broken or something.
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Tetrinity about 10 yearsI was getting the same error, but manually implementing the fix found here did the trick. It will be included in 2.40 when that comes out.
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blachniet about 10 yearsI was having some issues, even with selenium 2.40. Once I passed in the full path to the
phantomjs.exe
, everything worked fine.