webbot 0.1.2

Features :

• Use any combination of selectors like id, name, text, css etc to perform actions on elements with one line of code.

• Automate and test pages loaded dynamically by javascript.

• Click any button or link without having to worry about finding the element first or knowing css_selectors , xpath etc

• Smart scoring algorithm which finds the best matching elements on which you want to perform the action .

• Automation designed to work even in case of webpages with dynamically changing id and classname

• Immensely minimizes the code required for performing input actions like clicks and keyboard actions.

• Get webpage source , cookies , total tabs , webpage title etc..

• Simulate key presses and special key combinations

• Bidirectional scrolling

• Perform an action on webpage elements by applying various filters to select the elements .

• Perfrom action on multiple elements at once.

• If certain elements don’t have text or visible property , then use either their id , class , css_selector , xpath , tag etc.

• The entire automation process can be made without having to open the browser window i.e in the background as a console process (see docs for more details )

Installation :

pip install webbot

If “No distribution found error occurs” just update setuptools using pip install --upgrade setuptools

Quickstart :

from webbot import Browser
web = Browser()
web.go_to('google.com')
web.type('hello its me')  # or web.press(web.Key.SHIFT + 'hello its me')
web.press(web.Key.ENTER)
web.go_back()
web.click('Sign in')
web.type('mymail@gmail.com' , into='Email')
web.click('NEXT' , tag='span')
web.type('mypassword' , into='Password' , id='passwordFieldId')
web.click('NEXT' , tag='span') # you are logged in . woohoooo

web = Browser()
web.go_to('siteurl.com')
web.click('buttontext' , multiple = True)

web = Browser()
web.go_to('siteurl.com')

# types the text into the 3rd input element when there are multiple input elements with form-input class
web.type('im robo typing' , number = 3 , classname="form-input" )

web.click('Post')

Links :

• Full Documentation : https://webbot.readthedocs.io

• Project home : https://github.com/nateshmbhat/webbot