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Tomás Vírseda
Tomás Vírseda

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Selenium 4 / Python

#python #selenium #firefox #webdriver

Hi there,

Yesterday, after more than one year without working in one of my pet projects, I cloned the repository in a new Ubuntu desktop 20.04

Most of the GUI code worked out, but it wasn't the case for the Selenium bits. So I decided to take a closer look, and then, I realized that Selenium python bindings had been updated from the stable version 3.141.0 to the new pre-release 4.0.0a5

After many tries, I was only getting these messages:

DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object DeprecationWarning: firefox_profile has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object

So, I took a look to the source code and, finally, I was able to solve the issue:

#!/usr/bin/env python3 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-  from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options # Options options = Options() ## Option for using a custom Firefox profile options.profile = '/home/t00m/.basico/opt/webdrivers/basico.default' ## Enable headless options.headless = False # Specify custom geckodriver path service = Service('/home/t00m/.basico/opt/webdrivers/geckodriver') # Test browser = webdriver.Firefox(options=options, service=service) browser.get('https://dev.to') print(browser.title) browser.quit()

Bonus track

My application needs to load a page via SSO. In the past, I used a timeout. Now, I keep the timeout but I've added the following code to skip it if it loads the page faster:

# Extra imports from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By # Test timeout = 10 browser = webdriver.Firefox(options=options, service=service) browser.get('https://dev.to') try: element_present = EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'snack-zone')) WebDriverWait(browser, timeout).until(element_present) except TimeoutException: print("Timed out waiting for page to load") finally: print("Page loaded") print(browser.title) browser.quit()

Take care. Stay safe.

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