Fast writing in a textBox with selenium and python

Question

I'm using Selenium with Python (Chorme driver) to write something in a text box but there are a lot of textboxes and I need it to fill them faster. I use a sequences of

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@class='string required' and @id='order_billing_name']").send_keys("test.com")

commands but to write 10-11 these takes a lot of time. Is there a way to fast it up?

What exactly do you mean by fill them faster? What is your exact usecase? — undetected Selenium
– undetected Selenium, Commented Sep 14, 2018 at 17:05
because after a period of 12 secon the page will reload , so i need to fill the textbox faster — Marià
– Marià, Commented Sep 14, 2018 at 17:09
try finding all the elements at once based on just the class: elements = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//input[@class='string required']"). Then loop: for e in elements: sendkeys... — Ywapom
– Ywapom, Commented Sep 14, 2018 at 17:19
How many fields do you want to fill up in 12 seconds? Is it manually possible? What does the usecase says about it? — undetected Selenium
– undetected Selenium, Commented Sep 14, 2018 at 17:22
first thing is to find out what's taking long time: find_element_by_xpath or send_keys. Different problems. Also since your xpath includes ID, there's really no need for other atributes, so your xpath could be "//input[@id='order_billing_name']". But then if it's always ID, you could use find_element_by_id instead, which is faster. Although still, figure out first what takes time: finding or typing — timbre timbre
– timbre timbre, Commented Sep 14, 2018 at 17:49

Sers · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-14 19:36:04Z

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You can try to set values using javascript:

orderBillingName = driver.find_element_by_id("order_billing_name")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].value=arguments[1];", orderBillingName, "mytext")

You can set all directly with javascript:

driver.execute_script("document.querySelector('#order_billing_name').value='mytext';"\
                   "document.querySelector('.order_number_class').value='12323';"\
                   "document.querySelector('input#anotherinputid').value='anything';")

Example for a lot fields:

fields = {
    "input#order_billing_name": "some text", 
    ".order_number_class"     : "some text", 
    "css selector"            : "some text", 
    "css selector"            : "some text",
    "css selector"            : "some text"
    }

js = ""
for selector, value in fields.items():
    js = js + "document.querySelector('" + selector + "').value='"+ value +"';"

driver.execute_script(js)

edited Sep 14, 2018 at 19:36

answered Sep 14, 2018 at 18:45

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8 Comments

Marià Over a year ago

the problem is that doing river.find_element_by_id("order_billing_name") it can't find the textbox for this reason i did that with xpath

Sers Over a year ago

@Marià css selector input#order_billing_name or input[id='order_billing_name'] should work

Marià Over a year ago

it seems to work but if i want to "document.querySelector('.order_number_class').value='12323';" but inste 12323 i want ssend a python variable ?

Sers Over a year ago

@Marià of cause you can send variable. For example check how you can handle your all fields in my answer update.

Sers Over a year ago

@Marià I didn't understand what "javascript code like for instance an alert" mean. With execute_scriptyou can send any javascript code

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