http://simonwillison.net/2020-11-02T18:58:59+00:00Simon Willison2020-11-02T18:58:59+00:002020-11-02T18:58:59+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/2/selenium-wire/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://pypi.org/project/selenium-wire/">selenium-wire</a></strong></p> Really useful scraping tool: enhances the Python Selenium bindings to run against a proxy which then allows Python scraping code to look at captured requests—great for if a site you are working with triggers Ajax requests and you want to extract data from the raw JSON that came back. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data-journalism">data-journalism</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scraping">scraping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/selenium">selenium</a></p>

2019-11-04T15:05:38+00:002019-11-04T15:05:38+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2019/Nov/4/selenium-demoscraper/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/psychemedia/selenium-demoscraper">selenium-demoscraper</a></strong></p> Really useful minimal example of a Binder project. Click the button to launch a Jupyter notebook in Binder that can take screenshots of URLs using Selenium-controlled headless Firefox. The binder/ folder uses an apt.txt file to install Firefox, requirements.txt to get some Python dependencies and a postBuild Python script to download the Gecko Selenium driver. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://twitter.com/psychemedia/status/1191360534832205824">Tony Hirst</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/firefox">firefox</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/selenium">selenium</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tony-hirst">tony-hirst</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jupyter">jupyter</a></p>

2017-10-11T16:14:07+00:002017-10-11T16:14:07+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2017/Oct/11/cypress/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://www.cypress.io/">Cypress</a></strong></p> Promising looking new open source testing framework for full-blown web integration testing—a modern alternative to Selenium. I spent five minutes playing with the demo and was really impressed by it—especially their “time travel” feature which lets you hover over a passed test and see the state of the browser when each of those assertions was executed. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://twitter.com/samccone/status/918142052927291392">Sam Saccone</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/selenium">selenium</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/testing">testing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cypress">cypress</a></p>

2009-02-10T15:06:46+00:002009-02-10T15:06:46+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Feb/10/continuous/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/continuous-deployment-at-imvu-doing-the-impossible-fifty-times-a-day/"><p>It may be hard to imagine writing rock solid one-in-a-million-or-better tests that drive Internet Explorer to click ajax frontend buttons executing backend apache, php, memcache, mysql, java and solr. I am writing this blog post to tell you that not only is it possible, it’s just one part of my day job.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/continuous-deployment-at-imvu-doing-the-impossible-fifty-times-a-day/">Timothy Fitz</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/continuous-deployment">continuous-deployment</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/selenium">selenium</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/testing">testing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/timothy-fitz">timothy-fitz</a></p>