semvec/pypi-packages huggingface dataset:
selenate 0.4.0
Web Automation made easy
License: Apache 2.0

selenate
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.. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/selenate.svg
    :target: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenate/

.. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/selenate.svg
    :target: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenate/


Web Automation made easy, built around Selenium

Setting up
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1. First off make sure your browser is up to date, selenate will by default use firefox_.

.. _firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/

2. Download the latest selenium server look for the latest version number directory, and find a file selenium-server-standalone-x.xx.x.jar and save it as selenium-server_.jar

.. _selenium-server: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

3. Install selenate

.. code-block:: bash

    $ pip install selenate

4. Install the Java Runtime Environment if you have not already, instructions to do so are here_. It's also very likely that your package manager can also install it for you.

.. _here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Documentation
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Documentation is available at readthedocs_

.. _readthedocs: http://selenate.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Coding
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Here's some basic code to start a browser and navigate a little bit

.. code-block:: python

    from selenate import Selenate
    browser = Selenate() # start your browser
    browser.get("https://github.com/wmak/selenate") # go to this url
    browser.click(".mega-octicon") # click on this css element