Chapter 7: Detailed Web Automation Techniques

pip install selenium

import selenium

print("Selenium installed successfully")
print(selenium.__version__)

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

driver.get("https://perakskills.com")

print("Page Title:", driver.title)

driver.quit()

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

name_box = driver.find_element(By.ID, "studentName")
name_box.send_keys("PDTC Student")

<input id="studentName" type="text">
<input id="courseName" type="text">
<button id="submitBtn">Submit</button>

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from pathlib import Path
import time

file_path = Path("web_automation_test_form.html").resolve()

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(file_path.as_uri())

driver.find_element(By.ID, "studentName").send_keys("PDTC Student")
driver.find_element(By.ID, "courseName").send_keys("Certified Industrial Automation Professional")
driver.find_element(By.ID, "email").send_keys("student@example.com")

driver.find_element(By.ID, "submitBtn").click()

time.sleep(2)

result = driver.find_element(By.ID, "result").text
print(result)

driver.quit()

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

dropdown = Select(driver.find_element(By.ID, "department"))

dropdown.select_by_visible_text("Automation")

print("Dropdown selected successfully")

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

checkbox = driver.find_element(By.ID, "agree")

if not checkbox.is_selected():
    checkbox.click()

radio = driver.find_element(By.ID, "modeOnline")
radio.click()

print("Checkbox and radio button selected")

import time

time.sleep(5)

driver.find_element(By.ID, "submitBtn").click()

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)

submit_button = wait.until(
    EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "submitBtn"))
)

submit_button.click()

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

rows = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#studentTable tbody tr")

for row in rows:
    columns = row.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "td")
    values = [col.text for col in columns]
    print(values)

import csv
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

rows = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#studentTable tbody tr")

with open("extracted_students.csv", "w", newline="", encoding="utf-8") as file:
    writer = csv.writer(file)
    writer.writerow(["Name", "Course", "Status"])

    for row in rows:
        columns = row.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "td")
        values = [col.text for col in columns]
        writer.writerow(values)

print("Table exported to extracted_students.csv")

from datetime import datetime

timestamp = datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")

driver.save_screenshot("web_automation_" + timestamp + ".png")

print("Screenshot saved successfully")

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import os

download_folder = os.path.abspath("downloads")

options = Options()
prefs = {
    "download.default_directory": download_folder,
    "download.prompt_for_download": False
}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

driver.get("file:///C:/path/to/download_page.html")

driver.find_element(By.ID, "downloadReport").click()

print("Download clicked. Check folder:", download_folder)

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
from datetime import datetime

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

try:
    driver.get("https://example.com")

    button = driver.find_element(By.ID, "submitBtn")
    button.click()

except NoSuchElementException:
    timestamp = datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
    driver.save_screenshot("error_" + timestamp + ".png")
    print("Element not found. Screenshot saved.")

finally:
    driver.quit()