Re: remote control firefox with python
On Sunday 28 November 2010, 16:22:33 News123 wrote:
Hi,
I wondered whether there is a simpe way to
'remote' control fire fox with python.
With remote controlling I mean:
- enter a url in the title bar and click on it
- create a new tab
- enter another url click on it
- save the html document of this page
- Probably the most difficult one: emulate a click or 'right click'
on a certain button or link of the current page.
- other interesting things would be to be able to enter the master
password from a script
- to enable disable proxy settings while running.
The reason why I want to stay within Firefox and not use any other
'mechanize' frame work is, that the pages I want to automate might
contain a lot of javascript for the construction of the actual page.
If webkit based rendering in an option (since its javascript engine is
respected by web developers nowadays..), you might want to check out
PyQt, based on current versions of Qt. It provides very easy access to
a full featured web browser engine without sacrificing low level
details. All your requirements are provided easily (if you're able to
grok the Qt documentation, e.g. ignore all C++ clutter, you're set).
I've transcoded all available QtWebKit examples to python lately,
available here:
http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2010-November/028614.html
The attachment is a tar.bz2 archive, btw.
Clicking is archived by:
webelement.evaluateJavaScript(
var event = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
event.initEvent('click', true, true);
this.dispatchEvent(event);
)
Cheers,
Pete
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Re: remote control firefox with python
On Nov 28, 4:22 pm, News123 news1...@free.fr wrote: Hi, I wondered whether there is a simpe way to 'remote' control fire fox with python. With remote controlling I mean: - enter a url in the title bar and click on it - create a new tab - enter another url click on it - save the html document of this page - Probably the most difficult one: emulate a click or 'right click' on a certain button or link of the current page. - other interesting things would be to be able to enter the master password from a script - to enable disable proxy settings while running. The reason why I want to stay within Firefox and not use any other 'mechanize' frame work is, that the pages I want to automate might contain a lot of javascript for the construction of the actual page. Thanks in advance for any pointers ideas. I have had some good experience with Sikuli. http://sikuli.org/ Regards, Andreas bal...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: remote control firefox with python
On 28 November 2010 15:22, News123 news1...@free.fr wrote: I wondered whether there is a simpe way to 'remote' control fire fox with python. Selenium might be worth a look, too: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PythonBindings -- Cheers, Simon B. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: remote control firefox with python
On Domingo 28 Noviembre 2010 18:58, News123 wrote: On 11/28/2010 06:19 PM, Tim Harig wrote: On 2010-11-28, News123 news1...@free.fr wrote: Thanks in advance for any pointers ideas. google XPCOM thanks a lot For XPCOM (I've worked with it), you can try the following articles and references: XPCOM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM XPCOM Part 1: An introduction to XPCOM: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom.html XPCOM Part 2: XPCOM component basics: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom2.html XPCOM Part 3: Setting up XPCOM http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom3.html Mozilla Reference Documentation https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPCOM Best regards, -- Daniel Molina Wegener dmw [at] coder [dot] cl System Programmer Web Developer Phone: +56 (2) 979-0277 | Blog: http://coder.cl/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
remote control firefox with python
Hi, I wondered whether there is a simpe way to 'remote' control fire fox with python. With remote controlling I mean: - enter a url in the title bar and click on it - create a new tab - enter another url click on it - save the html document of this page - Probably the most difficult one: emulate a click or 'right click' on a certain button or link of the current page. - other interesting things would be to be able to enter the master password from a script - to enable disable proxy settings while running. The reason why I want to stay within Firefox and not use any other 'mechanize' frame work is, that the pages I want to automate might contain a lot of javascript for the construction of the actual page. Thanks in advance for any pointers ideas. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: remote control firefox with python
On 2010-11-28, News123 news1...@free.fr wrote: Thanks in advance for any pointers ideas. google XPCOM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: remote control firefox with python
On 11/28/2010 06:19 PM, Tim Harig wrote: On 2010-11-28, News123 news1...@free.fr wrote: Thanks in advance for any pointers ideas. google XPCOM thanks a lot -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
