5. Selenium Webdriver with Python Tutorial - Basic Actions #1

In this video, I show you how to send keys to a field and how to click on a button using the Selenium Webdriver Python API.
I also show you how to use Webdriverwait (explicitwait) to wait for an element to display.

"Selenium Webdriver Python Training"
"Selenium Webdriver Python Tutorial"
"Selenium Python"
"WebdriverWait"
"FireBug"
"FirePath"
"Selenium Send_Keys"
"Selenium Click"
"Selenium Grid"
"Selenium IDE"
"Page Objects"
"UI Map"
Xpath
Css Selector

[mwtillotson]

This is so cool. I've been learning more about unit tests and the selenium library, so this was two birds with one stone. Thank you.

[izaiasags]

Thank you! Great tips for beginners, now I'm ready to dig deep into Selenium documentation!

[ov]

but you dont explain what does unittest means, what does setUp(self) means and others element....
how can manual tester understand that

[farmakoxeris]

In your code you did not define the Firefox profile. Isn't it mandatory?

[yonatanmyers]

How does the unittest runner now to run your code? I didn't see any connection there?

[jsx]

So loginbutton.click, can this be used for any button? Or does it need special definition first to identity?

[anthonysanchez]

wondering if you can help me with this on a project im working on. in understand the concept but you lost me at the log in button part

[sameerbolke]

is there any way to click a button or hyperlink on a webpage without knowing its id/name etc but know its pixel location?

[joaobaganha]

I have that issue :( my python is 2.7

ERROR: test_Login (__main__.LoginTest)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "BasicActions.py", line 23, in test_Login
loginButtonElement = webDriverWait(driver, 20).until(lambda driver:
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\wait.py", line 80, in until raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace)
TimeoutException: Message:

[pkaramol]

Thanks for the nice tutorial.
Just a question: Why did you use the elements' ids for the email/pass fields and XPath expressions for the submit button/logo?

[Akash]

I used eclipse and getting this:

Undefined variable: _name_

How can i fix this?

[reymondturbanada]

thank you very much! awesome tutorial ^_^

[derekantrican]

PyCharm is telling me "ImportError: No module named selenium". I'm using Python 2.7. Is there a way that I need to manually download and import selenium?

[ramakoteswararaovemuri]

I need online training currently i am working as automation engineer using Robot frame work and Selenium2 library

[BarathKumar]

Hi great video...


I have a question is there any way to do the exact same without displaying the browser on screen but the work should be done off screen...

[Lev-fuys]

Guys, i have an error
NameError: global name 'find_element_by_name' is not defined

can you help me?

[stevepill]

is it possible to do this with python 3.5??

[JenilCalcuttawala]

I didn't understand the whole logic behind that facebook logo thing. What's the need? Would anyone explain it?