hide the URL in different file

[rjameel]

Hello Sir,
I really appreciate your efforts on this great framework. Can you please share, how can i use the URL with custom settings file?
for example:
URL.py

URL=www.yahoo.com
test.py

self.open(URL)
I don't want to pass the URL directly or use dotenv file. is there any option for me?

[mdmintz]

Hello @rjameel,
For a start page, you could pass that on the command line with:
pytest --url=https://seleniumbase.io

Or if you want to use a variable later, you could store it into self.data:
pytest --data=https://seleniumbase.io

self.open(self.data)

The custom_settings_file is specifically for modifying SeleniumBase settings. If you still want to have data in a file to be used later, you can use simple Python file I/O to read from that file in a test. https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/tree/master/examples/boilerplates/file_parsing