Selenium python- how can I fill all input fields at once

Question

Is it possible to fill all the fields on the page at once instead of one by one?

Right now I have

driver.find_element_by_id('1').send_keys(input1)
driver.find_element_by_id('2').send_keys(input2)
driver.find_element_by_id('3').send_keys(input3)

and it goes one by one taking a while to fill a form.

Are you concerned about the time it takes to fill out a form, or the amount of code used? — John Gordon
– John Gordon, Commented Sep 27, 2016 at 18:25
I'm concerned with the time it takes. Anyway to fill all fields at once? — Daniel Rusu
– Daniel Rusu, Commented Sep 28, 2016 at 23:06
I don't see how it can be taking any significant amount of time. Have you timed it? — John Gordon
– John Gordon, Commented Sep 29, 2016 at 0:18
So to fill a form with 5 inputs it takes about 3 seconds. Not much but it has to fill 1000s of forms which adds up. That's why I want to get it down to less than 1 second. Only possibly by having it input all fields at once. — Daniel Rusu
– Daniel Rusu, Commented Sep 29, 2016 at 0:25
The only way to do what you want is to not use a browser at all, but to communicate directly with the webserver via a POST call, supplying appropriate data for each named input field. Have a look at the requests python module. — John Gordon
– John Gordon, Commented Sep 29, 2016 at 2:59

ZdaR · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-27 17:59:36Z

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You may construct a dict in python to store the values corresponding to id and Iterate over it to fill up the corresponding data.

input_mapping = {"1": "input1", "2": "input2", "3": "input3"}

for key, value in input_mapping.items():
    driver.find_element_by_id(key).send_keys(value)

But the above approach won't be sequential. as the dictionary maintains no order on it's own. So it would be a better choice to use collections.OrderedDict() if the order really matters

answered Sep 27, 2016 at 17:59

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