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I'm looking for a way to programatically control a browser on a Mac (i.e. Firefox or Safari or Chrome/-ium or Opera, but not IE) using Python.
The actions I need include following links, checking if elements exist in a page, and submitting forms.
Which solution would you recommend?
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In this article, we are going to see how to control the web browser with Python using selenium. Selenium is an open-source tool that automates web browsers. It provides a single interface that lets you write test scripts in programming languages like Ruby, Java, NodeJS, PHP, Perl, Python, and C#, etc.
To open a page in a specific browser, use the webbrowser. get() function to specify a particular browser.
On a Mac system, it is very straight-forward. All you need to do is open Launchpad and search for Terminal , and in the terminal, type Python and boom, it will give you an output with the Python version.
I like Selenium, it's scriptable through Python. The Selenium IDE only runs in Firefox, but Selenium RC supports multiple browsers.
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