selenium-cmd is a small tool with which you can perform basic actions using a selenium webdriver object.
You can simply use
pip install selenium-cmd
You can use the SeleniumCmd class wherever you want in your script.
You can do so by importing SeleniumCmd from selenium_cmd.
from selenium_cmd import SeleniumCmd
SeleniumCmd(your_driver).cmdloop()If you do not provide your own driver, SeleniumCmd will instantiate one using Chrome() from selenium.webdriver.
This will open a prompt where you can type your commands looking like this:
selenium-cmd version 0.0.2
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With get you can navigate to different websites.
The following will navigate to http://example.com:
>get http://example.com
The exit command will stop the execution of SeleniumCmd and continue with your regular program execution.
>exit
The click command will click the first element found specified by an XPath.
The following example will click the first link on http://example.com:
>get http://example.com
>click //a
The extract command will print all elements matched by the provided XPath expression to your command line.
The following example will print all quotes from https://quotes.toscrape.com/:
>get https://quotes.toscrape.com/
>extract //span[@class="text"]/text()
1 The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
2 It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
3 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
4 The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
5 Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
6 Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
7 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
8 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
9 A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
10 A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
The syntax for the select command is: select xpath option
The select command will select an option by value from a select tag. The select tag needs to be specified by an XPath expression.
The following example will select the option "css" in the first select tag on https://www.w3docs.com/learn-html/html-select-tag.html:
>get https://www.w3docs.com/learn-html/html-select-tag.html
>select //select[@aria-label="Books"] css
The syntax for the write command is: write xpath text
The write command will write text to a text input field as specified. Text that contains whitespace must be enclosed in quotation marks.
The following example will write "Hello World!" in the search box of https://developer.mozilla.org/
>get https://developer.mozilla.org/
>write //input[@id="main-q"] "Hello World!"