A diferent way to control a headless browser diferent to selenium
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Iridium

A diferent way to control a headless browser diferent to selenium

Build dependencies

System dependencies

  • GNU/Linux with X.org (xvfb and a WM can works)
  • xdotool
  • xclip/xsel (xsel doesn't always seem to work)
  • A web browser (firefox/chrome)

Dependencies

  • Python 3.x
  • requests-html
  • clipboard
  • python-libxdo

Installation

pip install iridium

Build and install from source

poetry build
pip install dist/iridium*.whl --user

Usage

Generate a new driver

In [1]: from iridium import Iridium
In [2]: driver = Iridium("firefox")

Access to a website

In [3]: driver.get("http://example.com/")

http or https is not necesary

get an element of the DOM by a CSS selector

In [4]: elem = driver.get_element("a")

Click to an element of the DOM

In [5]: elem.click()
In [6]: # Or you can directly do the "click" method of the driver
In [7]: driver.click("h1")

Get an attribute of an element

In [8]: elem.get_attribute("href")
Out[8]: "https://www.iana.org/domains/example"
In [9]: elem.get_text()
Out[9]: "More information..."

Check if an element exists

In [8]: elem = driver.get_element("h1")
In [9]: elem.exists()
out[9]: True

Execute javascript code

In [11]: driver.execute_script('''
document.querySelector('body').style.backgroundColor = "red";
''')

Get all the HTML content of the page

In [12]: driver.page_source
Out[12]: "<!doctype html>\n<html>"...

TO-DO

  • Get the URL of the current page