* Using IceCat/geckodriver with Selenium (Python)
@ 2021-11-05 18:48 Maxim Cournoyer
2021-11-05 22:19 ` Luis Felipe
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From: Maxim Cournoyer @ 2021-11-05 18:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-guix
Hello,
I'm sharing this bit of knowledge as it was not obvious at all.
Selenium is hard-coded to look for 'firefox' in a couple places, even in
the serialized settings it sends to the browser instance controlled by
geckodriver.
Here's the initialization that worked using Guix on the
core-updates-frozen-batched-changes branch (where 'geckodriver' was
recently added to IceCat):
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox, FirefoxOptions
# Monkey patch the KEY string for IceCat.
FirefoxOptions.KEY = "moz:icecatOptions"
options = FirefoxOptions()
options.headless = False
options.binary = 'icecat'
options.set_capability('browserName', 'icecat')
self.driver = Firefox(options=options)# TODO:
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
The non-obvious was monkey patching the 'moz:icecatOptions' string of
the FirefoxOptions object, and having to set the 'browserName'
capability; otherwise a capability/invalid argument execption would be
raised.
If you use chromedriver (included with) our ungoogled-chromium instead,
it is more straightforward as there is nothing to rename/monkey patch:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
options = ChromeOptions()
options.headless = False
self.driver = Chrome(options=options)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I hope that helps someone else :-).
Maxim
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* Re: Using IceCat/geckodriver with Selenium (Python)
2021-11-05 18:48 Using IceCat/geckodriver with Selenium (Python) Maxim Cournoyer
@ 2021-11-05 22:19 ` Luis Felipe
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Luis Felipe @ 2021-11-05 22:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maxim Cournoyer; +Cc: help-guix
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Hi, Maxim :)
On Friday, November 5th, 2021 at 6:48 PM, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm sharing this bit of knowledge as it was not obvious at all.
>
> Selenium is hard-coded to look for 'firefox' in a couple places, even in
>
> the serialized settings it sends to the browser instance controlled by
>
> geckodriver.
>
> Here's the initialization that worked using Guix on the
>
> core-updates-frozen-batched-changes branch (where 'geckodriver' was
>
> recently added to IceCat):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> from selenium.webdriver import Firefox, FirefoxOptions
>
> Monkey patch the KEY string for IceCat.
> =======================================
>
> FirefoxOptions.KEY = "moz:icecatOptions"
>
> options = FirefoxOptions()
>
> options.headless = False
>
> options.binary = 'icecat'
>
> options.set_capability('browserName', 'icecat')
>
> self.driver = Firefox(options=options)# TODO:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> The non-obvious was monkey patching the 'moz:icecatOptions' string of
>
> the FirefoxOptions object, and having to set the 'browserName'
>
> capability; otherwise a capability/invalid argument execption would be
>
> raised.
Thanks, good to know about the options and that geckodriver is there now.
> If you use chromedriver (included with) our ungoogled-chromium instead,
>
> it is more straightforward as there is nothing to rename/monkey patch:
Yeah, this one just works.
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