Selenium webdriver without any Desktop browser

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I am using selenium. I have the following code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get("http://www.mysite.com")
x = browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@id='containeriso3']/div/a[1]")
hrefs = [i.get_attribute('href') for i in x]

Now, this works.

But I want to do this is on a server which runs on ubuntu command line. This means I cannot use this

browser = webdriver.Firefox()

in my code. What alternative can be used to this through command line?

Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-11 09:46:34Z

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You can use HtmlUnitDriver which is headless browser based on Rhino javascript engine.

http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/HtmlUnitDriver

edited Feb 11, 2013 at 9:46

answered Feb 6, 2013 at 12:03

Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy

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Rishi Over a year ago

Can you please mention chat changes need to be brought to my code? Also, will it work with python?

so cal cheesehead · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-06 15:22:15Z

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If your Ubuntu server and your desktop are on the same network use Selenium Grid. Your code will start on the Linux server and your tests will be executed on your desktop.

Take a look at the following link:

http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/Grid2

The examples are in Java but I'm sure you can adapt them to Python or at least get the idea of what you need to do.

answered Feb 6, 2013 at 15:22

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Rishi Over a year ago

They are not on the same server. The project is hosted on Amazon AWS.

Alexander Bezrodniy · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-13 09:26:22Z

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I think you can also try to use ghost driver that is based on phantomjs:

https://github.com/detro/ghostdriver, or you can also try to run usual firefox driver on Xvfb.

It depends on what you need.

answered Feb 13, 2013 at 9:26

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