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Re: Using IceCat/geckodriver with Selenium (Python)
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Luis Felipe |
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Re: Using IceCat/geckodriver with Selenium (Python) |
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Fri, 05 Nov 2021 22:19:33 +0000 |
Hi, Maxim :)
On Friday, November 5th, 2021 at 6:48 PM, Maxim Cournoyer
<maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
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> I'm sharing this bit of knowledge as it was not obvious at all.
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> Selenium is hard-coded to look for 'firefox' in a couple places, even in
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> the serialized settings it sends to the browser instance controlled by
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> geckodriver.
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> Here's the initialization that worked using Guix on the
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> core-updates-frozen-batched-changes branch (where 'geckodriver' was
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> recently added to IceCat):
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> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
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> from selenium.webdriver import Firefox, FirefoxOptions
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> Monkey patch the KEY string for IceCat.
> =======================================
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> FirefoxOptions.KEY = "moz:icecatOptions"
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> options = FirefoxOptions()
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> options.headless = False
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> options.binary = 'icecat'
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> options.set_capability('browserName', 'icecat')
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> self.driver = Firefox(options=options)# TODO:
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> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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> The non-obvious was monkey patching the 'moz:icecatOptions' string of
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> the FirefoxOptions object, and having to set the 'browserName'
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> capability; otherwise a capability/invalid argument execption would be
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> raised.
Thanks, good to know about the options and that geckodriver is there now.
> If you use chromedriver (included with) our ungoogled-chromium instead,
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> it is more straightforward as there is nothing to rename/monkey patch:
Yeah, this one just works.
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