pip3 search selenium pip3 install selenium pip3 list pip3 show selenium Name: selenium Version: 3.141.0 Summary: Python bindings for Selenium Home-page: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/ Author: UNKNOWN Author-email: UNKNOWN License: Apache 2.0 Location: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages Requires: urllib3 Required-by: pip3 show --files selenium | cat -n
Find out what version of Chrome you have by pulling down
Chrome → About Google Chrome
Then go
here
and download the appropriate version of
chromedriver.
I left it in my Mac’s
Downloads
directory.
I pointed my Chrome browser at
https://www.google.com/
and pulled down
View → Developer → Inspect Elements
Then I hovered over the
input
element (the rectangle where you type your query)
and discovered that its
name
attribute was
q.
"""
Open a browser window, type something, and examine the results.
Change myname to yourname.
"""
import sys
import re
import time
import selenium.webdriver
driver = selenium.webdriver.Chrome("/Users/myname/Downloads/chromedriver")
url = "http://www.google.com/"
driver.get(url)
time.sleep(5) #seconds
driver.maximize_window()
query = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
query.send_keys("WS19PB02" + selenium.webdriver.common.keys.Keys.ENTER) #or RETURN
time.sleep(5)
driver.refresh()
time.sleep(5)
html = driver.page_source
if re.search(r'<div id="resultStats">(About )?[\d,]+ results?<nobr> \(\d+(\.\d+)? seconds?\) </nobr></div>', html):
print("found")
else:
print("not found")
driver.quit() #Close the browser window.
sys.exit(0)
The Google results page for WS19PB02 contained the following HTML,
which matched the regular expression.
<div id="resultStats">4 results<nobr> (0.26 seconds) </nobr></div>
found