I am automating website filling in Chrome browser using Selenium.
For the first time user will enter username, date of birth manually. Now my requirement is when user opens my application for next time I want to enter the name and D.O.B using code.
Previously I was using Internet Explorer and there I had beforenavigate event which will inform me that user is going navigating to other URL. So I used to read the required fields and save it in my database.
How to do this in Selenium or Chrome driver ?
WebElement.getAttribute('value') can be used to get the value, but how to know that user has entered the values to that field ?
Please help me.
You are trying to fill in a login form for users using Selenium. This is impossible. For this I'd recommend cookies. How to do this depends on the language the website is written in. I'd suggest you do some research on how to do this in your applicaton. If you have questions about this you can make a new post here explaining the details of your application and the issue you are facing.
The reason this does not work in Selenium is that you will need to start a Webdriver to use this. When a user navigates to your website it (most likely) won't be doing this using a Webdriver. Especially not one you can access and send commands to.
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I need to capture the following user activity in the browser (it can be Chrome or Firefox):
What page he/she is seeing: the url and the time stamps of start and end of the focus on that page
And I need to capture it from an Electron application, or at least send the captured data (using another app / extension) to this application.
I think that I might be able to use the Chrome Reporting Extension to obtain this data in JSON, but I'm not sure if it will work, so I wanted gather more ideas for that, while I search for other possible solutions. It could be something to Firefox too.
Thanks!
I want to create a web app(for practicing my skills) that will help in conducting online exams. So I want to ask that is there any way to find out the following things---
Is there another page opened in the chrome (if yes then which)
Is there is another application running in the background (if yes then which)
Is user switching between tabs/applications/desktops etc.
Basically, I just want to create an app that just keeps track of users' activity when the user is giving an exam.
And if you have any of the solutions to the above problems then please tell.
Since most things you want to access are considered private data, it is not directly possible in a Web App, except the page visibility. But you can write a browser extension, which is at least allowed to access data within the browser. For information beyond the browser you should consider a native application or some embedded solution like React Native, Xamarin, or Electron, to name a few.
To get the info if the user is currently using the tab your Web App is running in, use the Page Visibility API:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibility_API
For accessing information about other tabs and browser internal stuff, write an extension:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API
Please I developed my mobile app and is primarily using localStorage for storing account info and some other info. The app has mobile and browser version.
For the browser version, I expect a user that is logged in to not be redirected to an auth page on browser restart. This works fine as my info are stored in localStorage. On the other hand, my mobile doesn't. User have to log in whenever he restart the app.
Please what option do I have? What option do developers use for the mobile storage? Do I have to use database? If so which one should use and where can I find a better documentation on this topic?
Note: I am using Cordova for my mobile app development framework.
For some reason, localStorage is tied to browser history. Some mobile browsers have an option to erase browser history on exit. If that box has a checkmark in it, then localStorage gets purged along with browser history everytime the browser is closed! So, you can ask the user to go into Settings and uncheck that box. Note: localStorage is not supported by older IE browsers, Opera Mini, and some Blackberry devices.
If cookies are enabled, you could use a one-time cookie code to log the user in automatically, but that cookie must expire after first use. Once the user is logged in, the server must issue a new cookie code to the client. And the client can use that new cookie to log in once again or keep alive the session. Using the same cookie twice should not work for security reasons. And the server must make sure never to issue the same code to two different users!
I remember, about 10 yrs ago, I went online to check my emails, and immediately the site had me logged into another user's account! I could have read that person's private emails and stuff, but I decided not to. I reported the incident to the admin. The problem was probably their server issued a random quick-login access code to me, and another user somehow got the same access code that I got. And when I opened the website, it thought that I was that other person. If your site deals with money and credit cards, you should avoid this technique! Any kind of auto login is a bad idea for a bank!
There is a plug-in to store data in an SQLite database using Cordova in this link
. You can find more details about storage with Cordova in the doc.
Save your data by using the following:
localStorage.setItem("variable", value);
Retrieve it from localstorage by using the following:
localStorage.getItem("variable");
It is as simple as it is.
Reference here.
Looking to prefill a webpage (a form in a wordpress site) from a lotus notes application. My investigations to date show that using the query strings behind the urlname should work - however I am missing something here.
www.url.com/register?fname="bob"&sname="smith" etc...
I thought this could be done, but am not sure where the starting point would be?
Ideal solution - webservice from the owner of url.com to allow us to populate and get a response once done. They are not keen to do this as it does not save them any time, just our business.
I am looking to understand how to prepopulate the webpage so that the user just has to submit the form at url.com.
You could go mega-sneaky and use the Selenium WebDriver to launch a browser session on your client. It has full control over the browser and can sniff out the fields you need to populate. I wrote some simple code for starters - but the samples on the original web site might be more comprehensive.
I know this question was asked like a million times by now, but I couldn't really find a good up-to-date solution.
I've implemented my own menu to provide the user the ability to Cut, Copy and Paste into my WebApp.
But I'm not sure how to actually work with the clipboard on Firefox, IE, Safari/Chrome.
Thank you for your help.
I just wrote a detailed technical blog post on this very subject (I work for Lucidchart and we recently did an overhaul on our clipboard). Included in the post is this fiddle which is a working example of copying and pasting via Javascript.
The good news is that this example gives you working code for setting/getting any supported clipboard data types whenever the user uses a clipboard hotkey.
The bad news is that using your own context menu to copy and paste is problematic. Even Google can't get around this (try using context-menu copy or paste in Google Docs in Firefox). You'll be able to get it to work without too much trouble in IE. This is because you can access the clipboardData object at anytime from Javascript via:
window.clipboardData
(When you attempt to do this outside of a system cut, copy, or paste event, however, IE will prompt the user to grant the web application clipboard permission.)
In Chrome, you can create a chrome extension that will give your web app clipboard permissions (this is what we do for Lucidchart). Then for users with your extension installed you'll just need to fire the system event yourself when they click the menu option:
document.execCommand('copy');
It looks like Firefox has some options that allow users to grant permissions to certain sites to access the clipboard, but I haven't tried any of these personally.
did u try :
http://ericphan.info/development/cross-browser-copy-and-paste-with-jquery-copy/
UPDATE:
the link is not available so i copy the content from cache :
The Scenario
I was working on a client project for SSW when the client reported a bug in the web app.
The bug involved a dynamically generated mailto link that got updated when you selected multiple employees. The client was reporting an error when he selected more than 10 employees to email. His Lotus Notes mail client popped up an error saying:
Error processing command line arguments
Testing this myself I found that Outlook 2007 could easily support the emails of 30-40 employees before the mailto link stopped working.
The Cause
It turns out that the mailto spec has a limit and the mail clients also have a limit. Lotus Notes only handles 240 characters in the mailto link and other modern mail clients like Outlook 2007 support the 2083 characters - the max length of a URL
This explains the discrepancy in testing.
The fix - JQuery to the rescue
Since this is a limitation of the HTML spec we needed another solution to meet the client’s requirement of “I want to be able to select multiple employees and send an email to all of them”
We could have created an email form that used SMTP to send out the email - but the client wanted to use Lotus Notes as his mail client.
We ended up changing the “email” button to copy all the emails (comma separated) onto the clipboard and popped open a new email window. All the client had to do was hit CTRL + V and paste the emails into the TO field. This was the quickest and most cost effective solution that gave the client the flexibility to use their own email client.
There is a JQuery plugin called jquery.copy that provided cross browser copy and paste by using a flash (swf) file. This is similar to how the syntax highlighter on my blog works.
Once you reference the jquery.copy.js file all you need to do to push data into the clipboard is run the following:
$.copy("some text to copy");
Nice and easy ;)
Note: you may need to change the path the the SWF file in jquery.copy.js to get this to work