Web Interaction with Selenium

recipes/Python/Selenium_For_Web_Scraping/README.md

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+Created on 2017-10-08
+
+Author : Anish Kachinthaya <anishk23733@gmail.com>
+
+Web scraping made simple with Seleniun
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+
+Selenium is a module for browser testing and web scraping.
+In this code example, the Chromedriver opens google and enters "do a barrel roll" in the search box.
+
+Modules required:
+Selenium
+* pip install selenium
+Chromedriver (macOS):
+* brew install chromedriver
+Chromedriver (other):
+* download driver from https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads and place in PATH

recipes/Python/Selenium_For_Web_Scraping/selenium_main.py

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+from selenium import webdriver
+from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
+from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
+from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
+from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
+from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
+import time
+
+driver = webdriver.Chrome()
+driver.wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 5)
+driver.get("https://www.google.com/")
+
+
+search_box = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="lst-ib"]')
+search_box.send_keys("do a barrel roll", Keys.ENTER) # Or whatever you want to fill the text box with
+
+time.sleep(5)
+
+driver.quit()