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la6470

Reputation: 29

How to debug selenium webdriver with phantoms and basic http auth?

I am trying to use selenium webdriver (python) with phantomJS to automate some boring administrative stuff that is done on a particular website. The website has a basic http auth mechanism. I run the following code but I am not getting anything (i.e nothing in screen.png or title). When I connect using wget using the same format (https://username:[email protected]) it works and I get the initial homepage that should be shown on successful login. How do I debug this.. Is there a way to turn on verbosity so I can see what is is really getting. Also please note that using firefox or any other UI webdriver is not an option as I want to only run it from a linux box inside the firewall.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait 
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC 
import getpass

login = "myname"
password = getpass.getpass("Enter password")
password = password.replace("@","%40")
url = "https://%s:%[email protected]/"%(login,password)

print url

# Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS('./phantomjs/bin/phantomjs')

# go to the website 
driver.get(url)
driver.save_screenshot('screen.png')

# the page is ajaxy so the title is originally this:o

print driver.title
driver.set_window_size(1024, 768)
driver.get_screenshot_as_png()

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1951

Answers (1)

Ros
Ros

Reputation: 26

as the variant:

  • change password.replace() to urllib.quote() since there could be more than @ special symbols in password.
  • change PhantomJS driver to Firefox (or any other) and you'll see what will exactly happen on your PC.
  • after driver.get() use previously imported EC for waiting for some element on the page and only after that - take screenshot.

Upvotes: 1

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