Selenium - Log in and navigate to different page

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I want to log into facebook, and then open a specific facebook url to get a list of people, working for a specific company (e.g. to get the employees of google, I need to go to https://www.facebook.com/search/str/google/pages-named/employees/present/intersect ) My first thought was to simply login (which works fine), and then go to the specific page using driver.navigate().to()

    FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

    driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");

    WebElement emailElement = driver.findElementById("email");
    WebElement passwordElement = driver.findElementById("pass");

    emailElement.sendKeys("[email protected]");
    passwordElement.sendKeys("xxxx");

    emailElement.submit();

    driver.navigate().to("https://www.facebook.com/search/str/google/pages-named/employees/present/intersect");

However, this way, the facebook page is not available, and I’m prompted to log in again, even though the page is opened in the same browser tab?!

The second thought was to log in first, get the cookie, and then use is this cookie for a new driver:

    FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

    driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");

    WebElement emailElement = driver.findElementById("email");
    WebElement passwordElement = driver.findElementById("pass");

    emailElement.sendKeys("[email protected]");
    passwordElement.sendKeys("xxxxx");

    emailElement.submit();

    Set<Cookie> cookies = driver.manage().getCookies();

    FirefoxDriver driver2 = new FirefoxDriver();

    for (Cookie cookie : cookies) {
        Cookie cookieNew = new Cookie.Builder(cookie.getName(), cookie.getValue()).expiresOn(cookie.getExpiry())
                .isHttpOnly(cookie.isHttpOnly()).isSecure(cookie.isSecure()).path(cookie.getPath()).build();

        driver2.manage().addCookie(cookieNew);
    }
    driver2.get("https://www.facebook.com/search/str/google/pages-named/employees/present/intersect");

}

However, that way, an exception is thrown: org.openqa.selenium.InvalidCookieDomainException: Document is cookie-averse

What am I doing wrong?

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-26 14:53:20Z

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I don't think it is a mandatory to store cookies to to get a list of people, working for a specific company. The following code block works well at my side :

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[value='Log In']")).click();
driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/search/str/google/pages-named/employees/present/intersect");
System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
driver.quit();

Console Output :

Facebook Search

answered Dec 26, 2017 at 14:53

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ossi Over a year ago

Thank you, your suggestion worked! However, i changed driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[value='Log In']")).click(); to driver.findElementById("loginbutton").click(); as the value of the input is depending on the language

Ali Azam · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-26 13:32:23Z

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Apply First Thought:

Setting up geckodriver for Selenium Java resolves the issue I think.

It needs to set geckodriver path with FirefoxDriver as below code:

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "PATH/TO/geckodriver.exe");
FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

Download geckodriver for your suitable OS from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

Extract it in a folder of your choice

Set the path correctly as mentioned above

After submit() you need to use wait functionality to refresh the page like

emailElement.submit();      
//Use WebDriver wait.until() or sleep() to finish the submit action
driver.navigate().to("https://www.facebook.com/search/str/google/pages-named/employees/present/intersect");

edited Dec 26, 2017 at 13:32

answered Dec 26, 2017 at 13:27

Ali Azam

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