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Reputation: 18457

Python script to click a web page button

I have a python script that sends data to a django app using the requests library. Then the users switch to the web page and click a button which fetches an edit form to add some additional info

I want that immediately after requests recieves a status code 200 it will switch to the web page and click the button automatically, instead of the users doing it manually each time.

I looked into using Selenium but it seems like an overkill. Any thoughts how I can do this?

edit

The current process looks a little like this:

Most of this is working, I just want the script to automatically switch to the web page and click the button instead of it being done manually. I know this is a little convoluted but I hope it explains things better

Also I'm using Windows and Chrome as my web browser

Second Edit

So I built a little demo to play around with. I created a file named 'test.html' which looks like this:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Test</title>
        <script type='javascript/text' src='jquery.js' ></script>
    </head>
<body>
    <div class="container">
        <button id="button1"> Fake </button>
        <button id="button2"> Fake </button>
        <button id="button3"> Real </button>
    </div>


<script>
$(function() {
    $('#button3').on('click', function() {
          alert('you found it!');
    });
});

</script>

</body>
</html>

As you can see, the only way to run the script is to click on the "real" button. Now I have written a python script which brings it up into the screen:

import win32gui

class Window(object):
    def __init__(self, handle):
        assert handle != 0
        self.handle = handle

    @classmethod
    def from_title(cls, title):
        handle = win32gui.FindWindow(title, None) or win32gui.FindWindow(None, title)
        return cls(handle)


chrome = Window.from_title('Test - Google Chrome')

win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(chrome.handle)
win32gui.SetFocus(chrome.handle)

Now how do I get it to replicate a button click done by the user? There probably is a way to do it graphically using coordinates but is that the only way? And how do you assure the button will always be at the same spot? Is there a better way than to use a button?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 31508

Answers (1)

Josh Smeaton
Josh Smeaton

Reputation: 48730

So all you want to do is automatically click a button when the page opens? I'm assuming you only want to auto-click in certain circumstances, so hide the javascript/jquery behind a conditional.

def your_view(request):
    # your standard processing
    auto_click = request.GET.get('auto_click', False)
    if auto_click is not False:
        auto_click = True
    render('yourtemplate.html', {'auto_click': auto_click })

Then, in your template:

{% if auto_click %}
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('yourbutton').click();
});
</script>
{% endif %}

When the user opens up the webpage, just append "?auto_click=1" to the URL, and you'll get the correct behaviour.

Upvotes: 1

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